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Mobilized Team => Olympic Gold
“With an inspiring environment and the help of your staff, we were able to hold a dynamic meeting that exceeded our expectations” – Andrew Moss, Swimming Canada. He’s talking about the new SIRC state of the art boardroom at 180 Elgin Street where the floor-to-ceiling windows offer an unparalleled view of the city of Ottawa. We have news for you… it takes more than a meeting facility to win Olympic Gold (the green-roofed Convention Center in Vancouver Canada has 20 foot floor to ceiling windows and offers unparalled mountain and ocean views).
Yes, Mike Babcock… coordination of each professional in the Olympic athletes support team to a level of synchronization that hones the fine sharp competitive edge that wins Olympic gold in the 2010 Winter Games takes innovative state of the art team mobilization. To avoid the seemingly inevitable clashes that can occur when tension run as high as ithey can – the blending, correlation, and integration of focus required takes a tuning fork with a special aptitude for aligning a diverse group into a compatible mix. Due to time constraints, Body’Fit pH Fitness™ exercise (short form… pHx™) is the essential link to peak body/ mind health. Weeks of conditioning are not required to see the results, the difference is obvious the very first time the dynamic series of 24 exercises is completed.
The recommended prescription is a five or fifteen minute pHx immediately before a meeting - it produces a radical physical integration of physiology that can harmonize focus on the common goal under pressure. When the Olympian’s team raises their physical, emotional and intellectual quotient with a heads-up routine that returns body pH to normal in as little as 5 minutes, all members of the team are on the same page almost instantaneously. For the mental focus that only pH balance gives, the physical focus that only balancing V02max in all muscles gives, and the debt-free aerobic cardio that keeps emotions positive, winners who take home the gold mobilize the spirit of “team” with pHx… more
IMPORTANT: Find out how a warm-up cool down exercise routine which restores acid base equilibrium this fast epitomizes the evolution of exercise for Olympic performance so your athlete can train longer and harder than ever possible before pHx. For an accelerated way to Beat the Heat. during Olympic training this summer look for our next blog on how to weather-proof your athlete, coming soon…
Tom Visack Letter to Suzanna
I’m not sure why I’m including the following letter from the NOP and video regarding the USDA except the reason may become clear in terms of our health and well being which depends on a clean unadulterated food supply that has not been altered genetically or chemically.
Dear Ms. Aaring:
Thank you for your e-mail of May 25, 2009, to Secretary Vilsack. I have been asked to reply on his behalf.
In your e-mail you ask if the certification process protects organically grown food from direct application and indirect contamination through contact with surfaces treated with chemicals such as Sulfuryl Fluoride. You also ask how soon consumers can expect to see the end of Sulfuryl Fluoride as the industry standard for fumigation of physical premises which house, transport, store, distribute, and process certified organic produce.
The direct application to, and indirect contact with, organically grown food products is strictly prohibited for chemicals such as Sulfurl Fluoride.
Producers and handlers must submit an organic system plan to their certifying agent for review and approval. This plan must identify all substances that may be used by the producer or handler, their purpose, and method of use. The certifying agent assures that the producer or handler only uses substances approved for use in organic production and handling. Should the producer or handler list a prohibited substance, such as Sulfurl Fluoride, the certifying agent will notify the producer or handler of the prohibition and assure through amendment to the plan, on-site inspection, and possible testing of product that the substance is not used. For a list of approved substances please see sections 205.601 through 205.606 of the National Organic Program National List.
Again, thank you for your e-mail and interest in organic production and handling.
Best Regards,
Richard H. Mathews, Chief
Standards Development and Review Branch
National Organic Program
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Visack
Tom Vilsack was sworn in as the 30th Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on January 21, 2009. Appointed by President Barack Obama, Vilsack received unanimous support for his confirmation by the U.S. Senate… more
Conversation with Organic Farms
I was speaking with Kevin at Klippers Organic Farm today and learned some very interesting things I didn’t know before about how they process their certified organic produce.
For example did you know popping corn is made by simply leaving the husks to dry on the stalks out in the field till October? Or that when apples are put together with carrots in the fridge crisper, the scent the apples give off makes the carrots go bitter? I didn’t. And that some people are allergic to the natural chemical apples give off when stored but only in the spring when there’s pollen in the air. Go figure!
I asked Kevin all about what they do and do not put on their soil and the plants pre and post harvest. The good news is that Klippers Organic Farm never uses any of the chemicals that have sometimes been allowed on certified organic produce (of course there’s a lot of changes in the works now that the National Organic Standards are law in Canada at the end of this month). You can count on Klippers Organics as a source of clean unadulterated food.
I also got some insight into what’s been ending up on so much of our fresh fruits and vegetables lately. For one thing, growing regions have experienced a wet season in the past few months… and since the application of sulfur has been allowed pre-harvest to control mildew, it helps explain all the sulfur that’s been on our food supply. Lime sulfur has been allowed post-harvest on tree fruits like peaches, nectarines and cherries (if it’s strong enough to kill the slugs, it’s not doing us any good either, is it).
Plus not to gross you out or anything, but some certified organic farmers have been putting blood and bone meal around plants to rush their growth. Now, it’s even worse than it sounds because the blood and bonemeal has not had restriction… animals fed with genetically modified organisms for example. This has as yet not been dealt with with under the new standards coming into effect this month. Until it is, this is a factor that will need to be investigated on a source by source basis when purchasing food, to determine if it has been grown under such conditions, even if certified organic.
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