Dragon boaters are budgeting on $200 per paddler to get to their Regionals, $400 per paddler to get to Nationals, so our costs of $100 per paddler and $20 per support person has got to be a bargain basement deal.

With a budget of $20.oo per week for food, or $30.00 per couple, we are going to have to be very creative with resources, especially donated food supplies.

....so what ever we can get in the way of donations it going to help big time, there is no money in the bank for food unless its cooked from scratch.

Our whole food diet plan is gold in the bank for a paddlers body.
Joe wants the rowers to eat healthy, so lets support Joe, and not arrive at Karapio munching on a choc bar, drinking a sugar lolly soft drink, eating chippies, cream bun or a takeaway burger in full view of the lads.
Us parents already at the camp will all be hangin out for a sugar fix, and if your hand is still holding onto that choc bar as you go pass, our teeth could take out a finger.

so lets get out there and source the local community for….
our glucose of choice just before the race is barley sugar

tins of condensed milk
This is not the Olympics, with a tin of condensed milk we can flush out tummy bug from any infected digestive track.
Picture NZ soldiers WW1, in the trenches, dysentery, the only thing left in your Red Cross pack is your tin of condensed milk. Drink the whole tin, in one foul swoop.
Two schools of thought. Geoff: The Condensed milk is so sterilised it goes through the digestive tract sterilising everything in its path. Alice: Research into bovine colostrum indicates the colostrum acts as a magnet that attracts the bad bacteria off your intestinal wall into the lactose, and the bugs get swept out, end of problem

Vegetables, any that will travel well
pumpkin
kumera
potato
carrots
onions

taro isn’t local but a great source for giving the body the building blocks for the production of testosterone and hence stamina, and perseverance.

Breakfast
Protein.
Eggs, two per person, fifty folk to feed, do the maths.
Bacon, sausage.
Vegetable.
Fried tomatoes, better than raw, full of lycopene, great for the prostrate.

Whats good for the prostrate is good for the breast.
Carbs.
Toast, carbs are ok, but got to be backed up by protein.
Large tins of baked beans plus bacon – its the whole package – protein and carbs.
Large tins of spaghetti
Will the rowers eat sardines on toast ??. Eat the whole thing bones and all – its the whole package deal again. Will we be able to get enough toast on the table?

If we do porridge, its got to be that whole grain stuff we soak over night and start cooking at day break. Porridge with maple syrup .
Modern, processed, rolled oats porridge, that microwaves in 3 mins will let the rowers down like a dogs dinner within 2 hours. Great if the rowers are first out of the water, bad if the timing doesn’t work in their favour.

Need to get two BBQ’s going
Need large pots
Need the cooks to sleep on site. The rowers are up for a run by 7.00 am
Need morning roster for breakfast menu.
Need parents to wash up after the rowers depart with manager.
Need parents to act like responsible adults and to actually complete the task of cleaning up the camp site kitchen before getting excited and rushing off to watch the rowers. Other wise its going to be too exciting when the cooks are too tired to cook lunch because they are exhausted from cleaning up after everyone.
We have one camp toaster, that can do fours slices of toast – need a dedicated toaster.

Lunch.
any thing we can BBQ
Fried mushrooms, full of zinc good for the prostrate. what good for the prostrate is good for the …....
those with wild pork in the deep freezer, can it be precooked, and turned into patties with onion, then we BBQ it at Karapiro. Better than any patties we can buy in a packet. If patties are not your thing bring it cooked to Karapiro. We will deal to it there.
Fructose
Banana in their skin – carbs & fructose – metabolises differently from refined cane sugar
Pineapple slices? In large tins? – more fructose, with Maple syrup, not the flavoured cheap stuff -the real stuff made from trees that root deep into the soil.
Protein, Sausages …..and chops if we can get them
Carbs bread
Potato salad
egg salad
pasta salad
three bean salad – might have to take large three bean mix.
Dried beans – alice might have to prepare before leaving or wait till we get an empty pot for a boil up – beans need to be soaked over night – soaking softens and soaks out the toxins.

We can always beef up the bowls of salad with hunks of cooked ham

Need folk who can chop onions without having a breakdown.
Need chopping boards and knives for the salad chefs. Or food processor.
Need plastic containers with lids.
Need clean up crew, who are not paddling. $20 per head for a weeks food, for every yin there is a yang, we are looking for slave labour.

The fly’s at Karapiro are smarter than tea towels
so We need plastic containers with lids to keep the salads covered, last year we had tea towels over containers, or lids that didn’t fit properly, this year surely we can outsmart the flies.

afternoon tea
The watermellon in the shade under the trees, in the breeze, now that was a golden moment in time.
oranges
apples

Evening
Gas fired above ground 2x Hangi.
Lunch time salads
boiled potatoes
large salad dressing

Need hogget, mutton
Need peeled root veg
Need large cabbage leaves for inside the hangi
Need gas bottles, actually filled with gas. Last year we had the gas bottles but no gas, yes last year the flies were some of the most intelligent species at Karapiro. Some of the humans didn’t have enough tea towels to go round.
Need dedicated root veg peeler’s for the afternoon shift
Need clean up crew after the meal

We have a powered site, if we had a great food processor we can do finely chopped coleslaw, or we can beef up coleslaw with cauliflower, using a grater for the cauli – the rowers will never know there is cauli in the coleslaw.
Fruit salad in the evening is great, the tinned stuff is way cheaper than fresh, but tinned fruit salad with fresh apples will work.

wish list
Commercial grade juice extractor, for carrot juice
Commercial grade food processor
Commercial grade toaster, costs over One grand
Commercial size rice cooker
Large pots to do a traditional boil up, those bones are full of trace minerals
Fresh kina, a great brain food, not all the rowing positions are just beef and muscles, some of the rowers have got to think. Maybe we should put the adults on a rising plane of nutrition, feed the adults more kina.

We have the best camping spot in the camp, so the lads can come home for a cooked lunch.
Other teams can have their filled rolls and wraps.
Bread is processed white flour, there is just not enough protein in the thinly sliced ham to balance out the white flour. Rowers need power to perform at their peak. Ham rolls for a school lunch is great. Nationals is all about action.

If you really want to see why we have it in for processed food, this page on our web site is very polite, www.painreliefclinic.co.nz/guides/painrelief.php?sub=Guide%20twelve

For more info on a diet for living, for eating correctly is our web site www.painreliefclinic.co.nz/therapies/painrelief.php?sub=eatingcorrectly

Geoff and Alice to supply;
2 cook tents
Hogget/ mutton
Nutritional supplement
Large tea pot
Large chilli bin
Enar therapy for ACUTE muscle repair and recovery
Back therapy in the 10 months before Dec 2009

2 cook tents, if it rains we are doomed

Hogget/ mutton – nutritionally the best supply of tryptophan, and B vitamins, plus fat is needed to up take your vitamins and minerals.

Hogget, mutton, ( and turkey) have tryptophan. It is an essential amino acid, meaning that the body can’t manufacture it. The body has to get tryptophan and other essential amino acids from food. Tryptophan helps the body produce the B-vitamin niacin, which, ¬in turn, helps the body produce serotonin, a remarkable chemical that acts as a calming agent in the brain, plays a key role in sleep, results in a feeling of calmness, so nerves are not an issue.

Our sugars of choice are
1)Maple syrup, supplies calcium, good for cramp, muscle spasm prevention.
2)A natural seaweed supplement for complex sugars. Research reports that sea weed supplements are made of a set of vital, complex sugars that are essential for proper cellular communication. Our supplement of choice for the rapid conversion of on board sugar/ glucose into instant energy.

A high-powered sea nutrient favoured by the most robust sea going paddlers on the planet. .. taken in the morning by paddlers it helps the human body regenerate at cellular level. Especially just before a race – providing a boost to help power up before Waka heats and finals.

As a food, seaweed is a highly nourishing and contributing factor to the robust strength and vitality of the people of Tonga.

Extensive research reports that people who include nutritious seaweed as part of their traditional diets are healthier and live longer than people who do not.

For antioxidants we prefer to eat all the colours of the rainbow, every colour of fruit and veg you can get hold of.

What to eat. Diet regime is meat and three veg. A cave man diet.
This cuts out most white food groups.
White milk, is so processed it is not full of calcium, it is full of phosphorus, that will actually reduce your on board calcium level. See stats on Nz osteoporosis, a nation of milk drinkers.
White bread is actually a mixture of additives, insecticides and flow agents, an interesting cocktail. Our natural therapy practice is built upon the effects of white food in your diet.
See our web site for more info on nutrition, stress, and toxicity www.painrelief.co.nz has further interesting reading and photo’s of last year’s winning team members.
Nutrition

In short white bread will not supply your body with good building blocks.
White sugar will negate what good nutrition you can get.
Stress, will negate good nutrition. Stress comes in many forms like extreme exercise, emotional stress, or mechanical stress like locked up joints.

Naturopaths well recognise elite sports athletes are at greater health risk than couch potatoes. Couch potatoes do not sweat out their trace minerals. Athletes don’t just sweat out water and salt, there are over 60 trace minerals to be sweated out . New Zealand school science classes target cobalt and selenium, as the major trace minerals that are short in our soils, but minor trace minerals all have their uses. Some folk will try and tell you supplementation only leads to expensive urine. So why do naturopaths personally supplement, because they would rather have expensive urine than a heart attack.

What to take. Families bring a chilli bin, a great camp site washing up sink, keeps the water hot.
Bring chairs if you prefer not to eat your breakfast standing up..
Bring potato peeler if you like your kumera peeled – for the daily on site evening hangi.

All eating folk and Paddlers Bring. Your own named: Tea towel. Chair, plate, bowl, egg cup, fork, knife, spoon, drinking mug or cup.

If cold showers and camping is not your cuppa tea, your tea mug ends up as your comfort zone.

If your body can not cope with sleeping on the hard ground, bring a camp stretcher. If you have more organic issues with your back or neck, get these issues sorted before hand.

Book your Enar back therapy sessions well before Nationals
It takes at least three weeks lead in to get on top of back issues. Function will return before pain reduces.
It takes a year of being responsible for your spine, before paddlers can hit the water rowing hard out.Your last appointments will be 3 to 6 months apart.

It takes at least a network of over 10 supporters to get one paddler over the finish line at Nationals, this includes younger brothers donating their special one on one time with mum and dad.
It will take a network of over 50 supporters per paddler just to get across the finish line at Worlds in New Caledonia 2010, and Canada 2012.
The support systems are in place to take Wairarapa Paddlers to the highest level. Coach Joe is just waiting for paddlers to step up and be accountable.

Paddlers:
Intermediate, Under 19’s and under 16, if you have back issues from rugby or other wise, your appointments with Geoff and Alice are of up most importance and money free. But expensive time wiser, as your family must commit to getting you to Featherston. The difference between gold and forth place is only 1 sec. The difference between silver and bronze is 1/20sec. Waka is a team sport, and lead in time is 12 months to the finish line. If one of your team mates in under functioning in the lung area, via smoking, do not let their dreams go up in a puff of smoke, get them on to the nicotine patch system. Joe Nuku is the best coach, the composition of the individual team members has already changed over time. It is a real credit to Joe that he keeps the culture of the waka on track.

Book your Scenar / Enar sessions before Nationals
Alice will be bringing her Enar to Nationals, especially good for acute issues like wrist and scapular pain. German Orthopaedic specialist DR Gerd Raetzel, tags pain less than 3 days as acute. Chronic issues require specialised Scenar treatment in a clinic setting. At Nationals Alice with her Enar, and can target neck and shoulder issues. Alice will apply the Joe Nuku system of time management, focusing energy where it will have most effect. Her primary interest is in those paddlers who have already committed to getting therapy support for themselves, having already adapted to the Enar therapy system of serotonin support, energy elevation, plus improved muscle function and pain relief.

happy paddling, roll on Nationals, then aim for world’s.

Yes its true, being in your 50’s will kill you.
The life you have lead, the gifts you have sent ahead to support yourself in your old age,, they will all come to roost in your fifties.

What ever your weakness is, it will try and take you out.
As soon as you blow out those candles on your cake – its count down time baby. Geeze,,, they way some folk carry on, you would think death was a big secret.

The grim reaper awaits.
But wait -what gifts can I send ahead for a healthy old age? and we are not talking a few extra mins of ill health at the end of the day. We are talking the big stuff – like a healthy active old age – with great circulation – viagra never gets a look in.

The human body, and its organs can support life for 120 years. The only thing stopping the human mind and body reaching 120 years – is you guessed it ! drainage !! toxicity and a dirty blood stream

Yes darling, if you do not put out the garbage, it WILL bite you on the bum. You are reading this blog, you have read our web site, reading is actually not a detoxification process.

so0Ooo what is stopping you pulling the trigger and doing your four day cleanse? It can not be cost, if you are smoking, no worries- you can do the Geoff Pitt Master Cleanse – and smoke, just do not eat the cigarette.

It can’t be the enema, because you have been using your arse since the day you were born. It’s the day you stop using it you need to really worry.

Four days without coffee, well that’s just sad. Coffee has those wonder anti cancer properties. Nothing like a coffee enema that is, to cleanse the liver.

Four days without alcohol ? even binge drinkers can survive for four days. And if your can’t go four days without a drink -get thee to an AA 12 step programme. Not only does alcohol kill brain cells,, but the alcoholism disease progresses even when you are sober.

Sober up and grow up. Once you stop drinking, your personality , will start to redevelop and evolve from the date you started drinking. Enlightenment is only around the corner.

So if you started drinking in your teenage years, yay, you have still got all those issues to go through. And if you started drinking pre teens – well who said you can’t got back and have your life all over again. You are going to have to learn and function in society without alcohol as a crutch.

....your weakness is going to kill you in your….. fifties,, you have the best chances of survival if you take action early

click here to see how Geoff Pitt, Naturopath survived his fifties

At The Clinic, we source a variety of Mineral supplements.
One of the important ingredients is Fulvic acid
Fulvic Acid turbo chargers your mineral supplement light years ahead of competitive products.
Fulvic Acid improves nutrient uptake & absorption.
Minerals and nutrients are carried directly to the cell.
Fulvic Acid actively pulls nutrients into the cell.
Over 60 different minerals naturally bind to fulvic acid.
Fulvic Acid actively transports toxic heavy metals out of the cellular environment.
The cell uses the electrical charge of fulvic acid balance its own electrical charge.
So look for colloidal minerals with fulvic acid when you want to turbo charge your nutritional uptake from your cell wall….. to your skeleton.