Eating Green: It’s Not Just Lettuce Anymore
What can you do?
– Shop at your local farmer’s market as often as you can. The average food item travels 1,400 miles from the farm to our plates, burning up significant fossil fuels and creating pollution.
Locally grown foods are fresher and closer to ripeness and their journey to your table has consumed far less fossil fuel. Furthermore, they are much less likely to have been exposed to post-harvest pesticides.
– Add more fruits, vegetables and grains to your diet and ease up on the animal fats.
Meat and dairy products are major sources of saturated fat in the American diet and contribute to a higher risk of heart disease, cancer and diabetes. Plus, red meat production creates about 3.5 times more greenhouse gases than grains.
– Buy fresh. Avoid frozen or extensively processed and packaged foods.
–Ban the can. Canned foods are lined with a resin that contains a chemical that is building up in the environment and in our bodies. Opt for fresh, dried, frozen or foods that are packaged in glass.
–Turn on your tap. Bottled water is costly and the waste it creates is not good for the environment. And you might be surprised to learn that municipal tap water is actually more regulated than bottled water.
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