A policy on Nutrition...

(nb - this is a draft policy/proposal written by Media Spokesperson - and qualified Nutritionist - Tommy Holgate, which is open to development. More detailed blogs will explain the specific benefits of each vitamin and nutrient on the human body.)

The Nutrition Proposition

Goal: 

-To get as many nutrients into as many human bodies as possible.

-To freely heal humans for health.

-To feed, educate and integrate.

Reasons:

-It has long been said that 1 in 3 people will be touched by cancer at some point in their lives. I was informed earlier in the year - by an employee of Cancer Research - that ‘they’ are saying it’s going to be 1 in 2 within a decade.

Wealthcare . . . but you can prevent medication need by getting vegucated 

-Healthcare is in a 'crisis' and many of us are scare of the prospect of having to pay out big sums for somebody to give us a pill of chemical to treat the symptoms of our lifestyle-created illness.

-This galling reality can be avoided.

-By following a predominently whole foods, plant-based diet, we can reduce our chances of being touched by cancer to more like 1 in 10, or even 1 in 20 if one decided to go pursue the nutrient-chasing to uber-levels.

-The consumption of such a diet is - on a very real level - a form of taking an organic, preventative medicine.

Cost:

-Fresh organic fruits, vegetables, plus nuts, seeds, pulses, juices, smoothies, home-made ice cream etc are likely to be on the menu.

Cash in the pan . . . although no cash or pan needed with amount of free, sumptuous raw produce you'd eat on scheme

-Said items can be perceived as expensive and/or time consuming [to go to a local town marketplace as opposed to popping in to a supermarket for example] to purchase, and the wealth>available nutrition gap continues to widen.

-So more fresh fruit and veg needs to be produced, and available - ideally for free - to those who need it most.

How?

-‘Inner city veg farms’ is how this idea began - a plan to turn derelict buildings and industrial-sized rooftops into plantations - staffed by volunteers who work in return for a cash equivolent of £10-per-hour worth of produce, enough to easily feed a family for a day.

Would you work one 7-hour shift in order to feed your family fresh fruit and vegetables for a week? I certainly might.

Family vitality . . . one person works for half an hour so four people enjoy can enjoy a two hour picnic

The plan started to grew into ‘outer city veg farms’, but then I realised when you get far enough out of a city you get ‘countryside farms’ or ‘farms’ as they’re known.

I think ‘farms’ has already been thought of, so then the challenge became ‘how to get farmers to move away from cattle and battery hens and into organic vegetables.

So tax breaks would be offered to those who ‘took the plunge’ - sometimes as much as having to pay no tax at all in order to rebalance any loss from previous income.

Also...

-All derelict spaces in the UK to be made available for scheme, in return for tax breaks and to the leaseholders.

-Gardens staffed by volunteers, who work in return for weekly fruit and veg - to the cash equivalent of £10 per hour - for their whole family (‘Working4Wellness’). Volunteer schemes can progress into paid work after a certain number of hours are worked. As plan grows, there will be scope for mass job creation on a basis that the first 10 hours of everyone’s working week is in return for produce, then £10 per hour thereafter. This means that a 2.4 children family could exist with each parent working 20 hours part time, feeding themselves and children sufficient nutrients to reach a position of 5% cancer risk, with £200 per week to spend on other costs. Or 1 parent could work 40 hours, bring in enough to feed the family, plus £300 on expenses. Furthermore, a job share scheme could be created.

-’Little Green Fingers’ primary school education programme, staffed by volunteers (also working in return for produce) perhaps of retirement age, with a background in teaching, farming, nutrition. A campaign to get nutrition and holistic health onto the curriculum.

-Physical farming rehab programmes offered to ex-servicemen including a variety of levels of exertion to suit those wounded. Same courtesy extended to mental health rehab centres of all kinds, and naturopathic therapies offered to those with depression and other conditions caused by an inbalance of the body's natural chemicals.

Benefits:

• Improved emissions.
• Mass progression of nation's health
• Greater sports achievement within schools (every kid loves PE, so let’s give them the chance to thrive!)
• A source of free education
• A contribution to the curriculum
• Said diet will improve sleep patterns, concentration and energy levels, and all round 'performance' in every area of life
• Lower risk of all lifestyle-related illnesses (arthritis, heart disease, chron’s) as well as increasing cancer prevention percentages.

Conclusion:

-Proper nutrients should not be denied to anybody. And indeed - literally - any body.

-This plan will undoubtedly improve those who participate in it, creating a positive ripple effect throughout society's relationship with nutrition and our own physical bodies.

-Veg Fever needs to be the the health epidemic that sweeps the UK.