Masters of Health Magazine May 2018 | Page 18

Ignore all the hype, avoid packaged foods as much as possible, and READ the small ingredients section on everything you buy. If a product doesn’t label its ingredients, then don’t buy it. Plus, most processed foods

have hidden refined sugar, damaged oils, GMOs, MSG, and other harmful chemicals.

Also, keep in mind that pesticides, herbicides, and environmental toxins are not listed on a label. Thus, non-organic food and products present a much higher risk.

If a growing child is lacking in good nutrition or physical, mental, and/or spiritual nourishment or being contaminated, we see the consequences of this as they grow, and with each new generation. This is becoming more and more common and could explain why in Australia, for example, 4,835 (1,808/drugs & 3,027/suicide) young people died in 2016 from misuse of alcohol, drugs, and/or suicide?

http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/3303.0~2016~Main

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http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/3303.0~2015~Main

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http://anglicaresa.com.au/6-startling-facts-about-suicide-in-australia/

https://www.and.org.au/pages/disability-statistics.html

Disability Demographics in Australia

• Over 4 million people in Australia have some form of disability. That's 1 in 5 people!

• 18.6% of females and 18.0% of males in Australia have disability.

• The likelihood of living with disability increases with age. 2 in 5 people with

disability are 65 years or older.

• 1.8 million or 50.7 % of Australians aged 65 and over have disability, compared to 1

in 8 (12.5 %) aged under 65.

• 2.1 million Australians of working age (15–64 years) have disability.

• 35.9% of Australia’s 8.9 million households include a person with disability.