balanced Issues & Your
lifestyle Health
choices Educating Yourself
Holistic health: responsible consumerism is taking accountability
considers the health of a person as a whole, not for understanding what you are consuming.
just what they eat or how much exercise they do.
It accounts for your stress levels, time socialising,
etc. Use of Harmful Substances in
Food Production
- Physical Health
- Social Health Farmers are required to ensure that they are
being ethical and responsible in the process of
- having strong, supportive, and enriching food production
relationships with the important people
in your life • Treat their employees fairly.
- Psychological Health • Ensure safe working conditions.
- mental wellbeing, including being able to
• Keep a clean and sanitary packhouse.
manage stress and to create a balance in
responsibilities and activities. • Package their food correctly.
- Emotional • Ensure traceability to market through
- being aware of and having control over correct record keeping. ( you are able to
your emotions and, as a result, your track the food back to its origin. )
behaviour.
- Spiritual Health Pesticides
- Having a constant, solid spiritual life Pesticides are different forms of chemicals that are
used in agriculture to kill agricultural pests and protect
crops. The primary aim of pesticides is to control
diseases, insects, and weeds in agricultural crops,
which can be harmful to humans.
Food Additives
A substance that is used in the commercial processing
of food in order to enhance its colour, flavour or
shelf-life. Try to avoid:
High Fructose Corn Syrup, Monosodium Glutamate &
Artificial Sweeteners