FOOD MATTERS: A Guide to Conscious Eating
by Mark Bittman
This book confirms what I have already mentioned: the lifestyle choice you make not only makes you healthier by reducing your risk of many long term and chronic diseases, it can also help you to loose weight if you need to, save you REAL money, and help stop global warming!
No change comes without effort, but the changes are not as hard as you think and take less time than your average workout routine. Knowing this can intrigue anyone. Don't take it from me, read this book for yourself and confirm what I am talking about.
The book is divided into two basic sections. The first section will make you rethink about your food consumption. You will learn how we tend to overindulge and how we have come to considering these outrageous portions we eat to be "normal." Bittman does an amazing job with a brief history of our over consumption of food. Think you're doing good following the food pyramid guidelines? Ever think that the government would want to help or hurt when it comes to our food consumption? Think again.
The second section offers tons of recipes that are good for you, the earth, and they're yummy too!
I really enjoyed reading Bittman's book, FOOD MATTERS: A Guide to Conscious Eating, and I think you will too. It really fortifies the old adage, "You are what you eat."
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Buying Local
FARMERS' MARKETS ARE RETURNING IN NY! With the warm weather approaching, I not only look foward to getting the kids out just about everyday, I look foward to my weekly trips to my local farmers' market! Buying local is the best thing to do whenever you can. Some stores tend to carry some locally grown food, when possible and in season of course.
Buying local is good for your health, your community and the environment! Your decision to buy local has a huge impact on your community. If you want to lower your carbon footprint and get the freshest best tasting food, all you have to do is shop close to home as often as possible. And spread the word, encourage friends and neighbors to do the same.
When you buy locally you support your neighboring farms, the city, town, state, and/or region. You will find many of the same things that you do at your local supermarket, only it didn't have to ride on an airplane of across 10 state lines before it gets to it's final destination, your kitchen. While you are doing your part to decrease your carbon footprint, you are also doing your part to help keep more money in your own local and surrounding communities. This is possible if you make it a point to buy at least a few local products whenever you go shopping.
Many stores and local farmers markets offer fresh, local poultry, meats, seafood, dairy products, eggs, regional wines, honey, baked goods, jams and jellies, fruits, vegetables and flowers. What is available to you depends on where you live, but there is always something local and fresh!
The benefits of buying locally produced foods are not only to provide your family with the freshest food possible. It helps keep shipping costs out of the price you pay for you items. It also cuts down on the environmental impact of fuels and emissions that come along with getting those strawberries from California when they are not in season in New York. I can also guarantee that local farmers would very much appreciate your purchases, which help them stay in buisness.
When local farmers' markets are not operating, commit to buying at least some of your produce at supermarkets and retailers that are commited to selling more locally produced products in their stores. Encourage local restuarants to buy some of their ingredients from local growers. Our individual and combined efforts really can make a difference!
to find a farmer's market by you click the link below:
http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/
Buying local is good for your health, your community and the environment! Your decision to buy local has a huge impact on your community. If you want to lower your carbon footprint and get the freshest best tasting food, all you have to do is shop close to home as often as possible. And spread the word, encourage friends and neighbors to do the same.
When you buy locally you support your neighboring farms, the city, town, state, and/or region. You will find many of the same things that you do at your local supermarket, only it didn't have to ride on an airplane of across 10 state lines before it gets to it's final destination, your kitchen. While you are doing your part to decrease your carbon footprint, you are also doing your part to help keep more money in your own local and surrounding communities. This is possible if you make it a point to buy at least a few local products whenever you go shopping.
Many stores and local farmers markets offer fresh, local poultry, meats, seafood, dairy products, eggs, regional wines, honey, baked goods, jams and jellies, fruits, vegetables and flowers. What is available to you depends on where you live, but there is always something local and fresh!
The benefits of buying locally produced foods are not only to provide your family with the freshest food possible. It helps keep shipping costs out of the price you pay for you items. It also cuts down on the environmental impact of fuels and emissions that come along with getting those strawberries from California when they are not in season in New York. I can also guarantee that local farmers would very much appreciate your purchases, which help them stay in buisness.
When local farmers' markets are not operating, commit to buying at least some of your produce at supermarkets and retailers that are commited to selling more locally produced products in their stores. Encourage local restuarants to buy some of their ingredients from local growers. Our individual and combined efforts really can make a difference!
to find a farmer's market by you click the link below:
http://www.localharvest.org/farmers-markets/
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