How About Food Commitments for 2010?

Good for Us / Better for the Planet?

Upon complaining I hadn’t heard from his sister over the holidays my nephew said to me, “We’re getting to be an ADD / ADHD culture. Everyone’s running around  so busy we don’t pause and think about what we’re doing or take time to communicate any more.”  “Quite insightful for a young man finding his way in the world,” I noted.  Taking the time to reflect and consider how, why and what we’re doing can make a huge difference for both us and planet Earth.

We’re like “shooting stars” completing the first decade of the 21st century and already into the next. Amazing simple lifestyle habits can make a huge difference for us and all life on earth!

Let’s be remembered as Radiant Stars when our kids, grandkids and theirs look back and say Mom/Dad/Grandma/Grandpa/Uncle/Aunt/Ancestor lived a long healthy life, shared their wisdom with me and chose an Earth-friendly lifestyle  so I could have a future and be here now!!!

Lifestyle Choices Affect both Us and the Earth

The more aware we become, affects of lifestyle on our long-term health and planetary well-being become apparent. In response to “germs becoming antibiotic resistant” and other such unsavory subjects, let’s make our food choices healthful, delicious and exciting.

It takes just a small movement of the rudder
to reach a very different place on the shore.

Let’s consider food choices for the coming decade that may well contribute to our own long life, good health, and shift the burden over-population and overuse of resources is putting on our dear planet.
A friend recently quoted an awesome magazine headline seen in local co-op, “We need to quit looking at the earth as a resource and start looking at it as our home.” Wow! What a concept! Jill Richardson of Firedoglake says, “Your diet can be as potent a way to fight global warming as your choice of vehicle.”

3 Food Commitments for 2010

1. Buy Local Organic: reduce transportation and production costs, eat healthier, support your local economy, vote with your fork

As fuel prices rise in the coming year (I’ve heard $4/gallon predicted) so will costs of transportation and production. It might take a little research to find out where you can purchase local, organic food, but it’s an empowering way to fight back. Ride a bike to the farmers market, ask around, get to know the neighborhood. Free yourself from dependency on the supermarket.

For those who have time, Barbara Kingslover’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life is an inspiring story of how she and her family shifted their views and experience of food. Most communities have some local food production. Consider neighborhood or community gardens, grow your own or support those who are already putting forth the effort.

2. Reduce Use of Animal Foods

We could argue all day about whether we should eat meat or become vegetarian. The truth is we must be authentically ourselves, and walk the path to which we are drawn. Those raised eating meat might like to change, yet it may seem a difficult proposition. Others have become vegan or vegetarian, all raw or cooked, and find it joyful and fun to follow a plant based diet.

There is no reason to judge what someone chooses to eat; for we will grow and change as we become ready. Meanwhile the facts demonstrate reducing use of animal foods can make us more healthy and the Earth, too! If you’re not ready to give up meat, try going vegetarian 2-3 days per week, buy organic and to offset the extra cost, eat less.

Healthier for Us: recent bestseller, The China Study reports on 35 year study in China with 8,000 people in 65 counties, concluding maximum 7% animal foods in the diet either reversed or eliminated all degenerative conditions.

Healthier for the Earth: Over 40% of carbon monoxide comes from feedlots. Rainforests (our main source of new oxygen) are being clearcut at an alarming rate to graze cattle for companies such as MacDonalds.

3. Eat Simply, Eat Whole Foods

Get your own stash of whole foods put away in the pantry. There’s a SHOPPING LIST in the back of my Super Immunity Secrets ebook which you can get still right now for $10 off the original price – just $7.99 with Coupon Code  –   NewYearSale Click on the ebook image to the right and follow instructions! Be sure to use this Coupon Code!

Learn how to make quick, easy healthy food at  home, heal body, mind and spirit. Run from packaged, processed refined foods that break down the body and mind over time due to lack of nutrients and stressing body systems. Avoid high fructose corn syrup and anything  you can’t pronounce like the plague. Become a label reader and discover how many things you won’t buy once you realize what’s in them. Learn how quick and easy it is to make healthy protective foods at home. “Show the Love” to you and  your family with home-made good-for-ya food!

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