Happy Earth Day! This is truly a great day to celebrate all the wonderful things that our planet does for us...and a day to remind us that we can all help take care of the only planet we have.
The key is to make small changes and incorporate them into our lives. Doing a big clean up of the local streams is an awesome project...but you can make just as big...or even bigger impact just by making some simple changes in your day to day living. And you can lose weight naturally and permanently in the process!
What could be better? Helping the planet and losing weight!
We don't tend to think of the meat we eat as being "produced"...but the truth is, the steak or chicken that is on your plate is just as much a product these days as the computer you are reading this blog on. And the way the food is produced is typically not environmentally friendly. The goal, like most business, is to make the product quickly and inexpensively.
This thought process may make a profit for the manufacturer, but unfortunately when it comes to food, it is not the healthiest method for either our planet or the humans who eat it.
That doesn't mean you have to go completely vegetarian in order to help. Instead, start small...one day a week, in honor of Mother Earth, go meatless.
Animal products are higher in fat than other protein sources and are harder for our bodies to digest. We eat more of them, get more calories then we need...and there can be other health implications for our bodies.
Think about eating "closer to the ground"...how many steps does the food go through before you eat it? We grow corn to feed to the animals...we can bypass that middle step and eat the corn and have less impact on the earth.
Look into some high protein grains...quinoa is my favorite because it is super easy to prepare and quick, too.
This can give you variety in your diet, help you lose weight, and help the earth. It is truly environmentally friendly eating! Oh...and it is cheaper, too!
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Thursday, April 22, 2010
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
Honor Mother Earth and Have Weight Loss Success
This is Earth Week and as we turn our attention to what we can do to honor our Mother Earth, it is a good time to think about simple things we can do at home to help...not just the earth, but to lose weight, too!
These are things we can do every week, not just this week. Just like losing weight, it is by making small changes and absorbing them into our routine...making them our new habits...that we see big results!
One of the biggest things you can do for both the earth and your waist line is to eat fewer packaged foods. Less packaging is better for the environment.
You want to eat more fruits and vegetables...and think about how little packaging that entails! For most of them no package is required...or it comes built in! Whether it is something you can compost like the orange peel or something you eat, like yummy sugar snap pea...fruits and veggies give us great nutrition and what is left behind gives back to the earth!
The more packaging there is the more processing that food has been through. More processing typically means more of the good stuff is taken out and bad stuff has been put in. By buying fewer packaged foods you are pretty much guaranteeing you get more of the good and less of the bad!
Let's face it...sometimes we want packaged foods because of convenience. When that's the case select packaged foods with the earth and your health in mind. Read the labels for the contents so you know what you are eating, but also look at the label and see if the package is recyclable, made from recycled materials, printed with vegetable based inks, and uses vegetable based films. This all helps reduce our dependence on oil, supports our farms and keeps our land healthier.
It only takes a little effort to have a big impact on our environment. Making small changes like these will give you a big result...both for healthier you with weight loss success and a healthier planet, too!
These are things we can do every week, not just this week. Just like losing weight, it is by making small changes and absorbing them into our routine...making them our new habits...that we see big results!
One of the biggest things you can do for both the earth and your waist line is to eat fewer packaged foods. Less packaging is better for the environment.
You want to eat more fruits and vegetables...and think about how little packaging that entails! For most of them no package is required...or it comes built in! Whether it is something you can compost like the orange peel or something you eat, like yummy sugar snap pea...fruits and veggies give us great nutrition and what is left behind gives back to the earth!
The more packaging there is the more processing that food has been through. More processing typically means more of the good stuff is taken out and bad stuff has been put in. By buying fewer packaged foods you are pretty much guaranteeing you get more of the good and less of the bad!
Let's face it...sometimes we want packaged foods because of convenience. When that's the case select packaged foods with the earth and your health in mind. Read the labels for the contents so you know what you are eating, but also look at the label and see if the package is recyclable, made from recycled materials, printed with vegetable based inks, and uses vegetable based films. This all helps reduce our dependence on oil, supports our farms and keeps our land healthier.
It only takes a little effort to have a big impact on our environment. Making small changes like these will give you a big result...both for healthier you with weight loss success and a healthier planet, too!
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