Going natural for gut health

Age: Favourite song? Favourite colour? Favourite game? Who is your best friend? What makes you laugh?

Four (Holds up four fingers).

Um, Shotgun (starts singing). Green and blue.

Playing with Maddison. Avneet.

Um, something happens (starts smiling).

What makes you sad? What are you afraid of? If you could change your name what would it be? Maddison. ‘Cause. What are you really good at? Drawing anything

I’m allowed to.

What is your favourite thing to eat for lunch?

Lasagne

What is your favourite fruit?

and pear.

What do you want to be when you grow up?

superhero. Supergirl. She got powers. Um, seven.

How old is grown up?

Something bes (is) mean. In the dark. Apples, strawberries A SUSTAINABLE living is often viewed as something we do ‘outside’ our body, but for Christine Corner, founder of Crave

` Natural, sustaining our own health is all important.

Crave Natural was born from her own health issues, one of which she virtually eradicated within a week when she made the switch to what is now a staple in her business – ferments and chemical-free food.

“Fermentation has been around for thousands of years. It’s the way that people used to get products to last over winter in Europe and Asian countries. It was a great way of extending the harvest.

“I’m interested in that side of things but also in relation to the fermentation with regards to your gut health and your microbiomes, so increasing the diversity in your gut microbes which has an overall benefit to your health.”

Christine wasn’t always healthy herself.

“Fermented foods have changed my life. I was anaphylactic to meat and I had irritable bowel for most of my younger years.

“Within a month (of a diet change) my irritable bowel syndrome was eliminated. My meat allergy, a which was quite severe, took around five years, but I’ve cured myself of that too. It’s changed my life,” she said. “There’s so much scientific data which backs this up now.”

Crave Natural will be exhibiting at the Sustainable City Expo this month.

“We’re going to be doing a demonstration where you make sauerkraut and take a jar of that home.

I’m also doing a talk on permaculture in the afternoon.”

Mrs Corner also teaches regularly in Dubbo at the Dubbo Community Gardens off Palmer Street.