This week I will dedicate my blog to the sustainable diets for the future. Whether you are vegetarian, vegan or meat eater, these are the foods that are good for you and good for our planet. It is incredible how much “going green” can be incorporated into your everyday eating habits. Every day I continue to be amazed at the strong connection between health and sustainability. Our food choices have so much to do with the environment, our communities and well being.
Do you know that “low carbon” diet can minimize the carbon footprint when it comes to food intake?
Major tenets of a low carbon diet include eating less industrial meat and dairy, eating less industrially produced food in general, eating food grown locally and seasonally, eating less processed and packaged foods and reducing waste form food by proper portion size, recycling and composting (Randy Hall, “Low Carbon Diet' Aims to Take Bite Out of Global Warming). A Carbon Diet is term that is used to describe making lifestyle and workplace changes for environmental sustainability. It encompasses travel, electricity, heating, food, and products and services. Basically “low carbon” diet refers to making choices about food that are more sustainable and reduce the impact on global warming. Our sustainable future is the right food choices, which are healthy and economically viable, with respect to farmers, workers and animals.
“Eat to live not live to eat”
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