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Posts Tagged ‘diet’
Health, Aug 17th, 2010,
The diet of the West, high in animal products, fat, salt and sugar, is increasingly associated with wealth and development. The growing middle and upper classes in China are causing meat consumption to skyrocket in that country. Those with more disposable income in characteristically poor places buy more imported, packaged and processed foods, which all tend to be higher in salt, sugar and fat. Meat becomes more of a staple than a luxury. In contrast, the poor of the developing world generally eat traditional diets that are high in fruit and vegetables. In the West it’s the opposite. The cheapest…
Tags: Africa, allergies, bacteria, children, developing, diet, disease, European, fat, food, guy, heath, meat, microbial, poor, rich, salt, study, sugar, vegetables, Western
Climate Change, Green living, Health, Jul 23rd, 2010,
Two rather informative articles from Mother Jones go over the environmental benefits/drawbacks of a vegetarian diet vs. one that includes lots of meat. Kiera Butler’s ‘Steak or Veggie Burger: Which is Greener?’ – aka ‘Get Behind Me Seitan’ – may tread some familiar ground for those well versed on the relationship between diet and the environment, but it offers up some pretty important details, especially about processed meat substitutes. A processed ‘pea-burger’ requires as much energy as a pork chop, Butler claims. I don’t know what a pea-burger is, but I’m guessing she is referring to the bulk of industrially…
Tags: burger, Butler, diet, eat, eating, environment, factory, farm, farming, gluten, hexane, Kiera, meat, processed, seitan, vegetarian, veggie, wheat
Green living, Health, Jul 16th, 2010,
A recent piece for The Ecologist, entitled ‘Biomass Britain: do fields of energy crops spell an end to grazing livestock’, explores the possibility of a revolution in the UK’s land use. 70-80% of land in the UK is used by the British livestock industry. The possibility of a near-complete shift from livestock farming to the growing of food crops and biomass for energy production may sound revolutionary to some and catastrophic to others. It would mean the de-industrialization of Britain’s meat industry and a 60-70% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, according to The Ecologist article. It’s a revolutionary vision that…
Tags: biomass, British, carbon, change, diet, emissions, energy, farming, forestry, industry, livestock, meat, Peel, plant, Scotland, Scottish, UK, wood
Green living, Health, May 10th, 2010,
Diets can be a real pain to stick with. Most of us are aware that we should eat a certain amount of fruits, veggies, breads, dairy and so forth per day; but how many of us actually do it? I know I certainly don’t. I can’t even remember the last time I had 8 glasses of water in one day, or 3 servings of veggies. Typically, we go with what we crave and what is easiest to get a hold of. Unfortunately, that usually means junk food or quick meals that are anything but nutritious or satisfying. Gods forbid if…
Tags: color coded, design, diet, food, meals, pie chart, section plates, Wheel of Nutrition
Green living, Videos & Documentaries, Oct 16th, 2009,
This headline is admittedly a gross simplification of what happens to the diets of certain countries’ populations in times of economic hardship and instability, but it does crystallize a very enlightening phenomenon. In essence, the diets of lower income people in developed countries are unhealthy compared with their counterparts in developing nations. The foods they eat are often processed and loaded with sugar, salt, fat, preservatives and chemical additives and their diets feature less fresh and fewer wholesome foods like fruits and vegetables. The cheaper a food product is, the more likely it is to contain larger amounts of those…
Tags: countries, Cuba, developed, developing, diet, economic, food
