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From "Maple Street Co-op News", Oct/Nov 2004

Resort to Healthy Choices from Living Valley Springs

The Co-op has been stocking products from Living Valley Springs for some time. As the company has ethics and values similar to those of the Co-op, we thought it appropriate to give it a mention here.

Living Valley Springs is a health retreat nestled in the beautiful Noosa hinterland at Kin Kin. Its natural surroundings provide the perfect place for you to focus on restoring your good health and wellbeing. The retreat offers a 10-day, tailor-made tune-up program that includes cleansing, nutritional support, exercise (there's a swimming pool and walking tracks), a wide range of natural therapies and remedies, lifestyle education, counselling and much more.

This is definitely no ordinary health retreat. You can enjoy informative lifestyle lectures, vegetarian cooking classes and a range of therapies to suit your needs. The qualified, enthusiastic staff can give you expert guidance on how to lose weight, handle stress, deal with disease or addictions, or overcome fatigue.

The 10-day program has a segment devoted to utilising organic juices, minerals and herbal tonics to assist in cleansing your body of toxins. During the "eating days", guests are treated to a feast of organically grown, nutritious fruits and vegetables, the emphasis being on vegetarian. In a short time you'll feel brand new! The retreat offers a personalised nutrition and lifestyle plan to take away, as well as an ongoing back-up service.

To complement its health retreat, Living Valley Springs has produced a range of natural superfood and therapeutic supplements to maximise nutrition and enhance healing. The Co-op now stocks many of these products:

• Cayenne Pepper, a boon for improving circulation both as a tonic and topical treatment, as reviewed in our April/May newsletter;

• Charcoal Powder, an ancient antidote for poisoning as it can absorb up to 80 times its own volume of certain poisons as well as relieve bloating, flatulence and indigestion;

• Green Barley Leaf, a blood cleanser, deodoriser and concentrated source of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, carotene, chlorophyll, dietary fibre and amino acids;

• Maca Powder, a 100% dehydrated Peruvian root vegetable prized for its nutritional, energising and revitalising properties and valued for boosting strength, energy, stamina, libido and sexual function;

• Certified Organic Wheat Grass, ideal for blood purification, liver detoxification and colon cleansing.

For those interested in the 10-day retreat, contact Living Valley Springs at PO Box 35, Kin Kin Qld 4571, telephone 1800 644733 (toll free), or email newstart@lvs.com.au. You can visit the Living Valley Springs website at http://www.lvs.com.au.

[From "Maple Street Co-op News", Oct/Nov 2004; published by The Maple Street Co-operative Society Ltd, 37 Maple Street, Maleny, Qld 4552, Australia, tel (07) 5494 2088, email maplest.co-op@serv.net.au,
website http://www.maplestreetco-op.com.au]