Buy organic heritage seedlings whenever you can. Most fruits and vegetables have an incredibly diverse range of varieties, but we typically only see one or two different kinds in the grocery store. By choosing to grow heritage plants we can preserve that diversity and give a big green thumbs down to monoculture.
Buy grass-fed, hormone-free,organic, and free-range meat, dairy and eggs. Many grocery
stores now have organic sections with produce that doesn’t contain chemical fertilizers,
pesticides, or herbicides. These choices are better for you and the earth because no chemicals
go into the soil or water. These items cost a little more but for the sake of your health-and taste
buds!- it’s worth the price. Human-made pesticides and fertilizers require energy and resources
to be manufactured and distributed; they also pollute the air, soil, and water, and have been
shown to be carcinogenic (cancer-causing) in many cases. Vegetables that are grown
organically require less fossil-fuel energy to be grown, pollute less, and are far less likely to
cause any health issues. Prevention Magazine (prevention.com) offers lots of good information
about food safety and what to avoid. Healthier is also happier!
Cutting back on meat consumption is good for the environment, your health, and your wallet. Producing one pound of beef puts as much carbon dioxide into the environment as driving a typical car 70 miles! Read “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” the 2006 UN paper about the effects of the meat industry on the environment and human populations, at fao.org/docrep/010/a0701e00.HTM
Eat like a Beatle! Sir Paul McCartney and many other celebrities support Meat Free Mondays. Check it out at meatlessmonday.com. The Belgian city of Ghent has instituted a Meat Free Thursday. Choose a day of the week to eat vegetarian or vegan and try to stick to this one-day diet each week. This global movement is saving water and preventing deforestation, not to mention its enormous health benefits!
Neuropsychiatrist David Amen,MD, posits that thoughts carry physical properties and that the properties of negative thoughts can be detrimental to leading a healthy, happy life. To overturn these negative effects, he prescribes thinking more positively so you can change the way your brain works and in turn change your life for the better.
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Have you heard of “food desserts”? I certainly never did until reading last year in The New York Times about entire swaths of urban areas with nothing but corner stores filled with processed, packaged foods and no produce whatsoever. I started paying attention and it is true. There is something you can do about it. By making a donation to WholesomeWave.org, they will provide fresh fruits and veggies to those underserved communities. How great is that? Actually, it is even better,as Wholesome Wave obtains their organic produce from small and mid-sized farmers.
