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Health and Diet


Avoid Fast Food: Every notice how much packaging is wasted on fast food, specifically on a burger and a fries? Typically there is a paper tray liner, a special container for your burger, a paper wrapper to hold your burger contents in place, a box or wrapper to hold your fries, a paper or Styrofoam cup, several napkins and several types of condiments. If you get your food to go, you can add a paper bag and perhaps even a cardboard drink holder.

Bottled Water: Before you drink your next plastic bottle of water, read up on the risk of potential chemicals you’re ingesting. Instead, consider adding a quality filter for your tap water and then using inert refillable bottles instead.
Buy In Bulk: Buying in bulk means less packaging and less cost. Typically, it is not necessary to bag up bulk packaged goods which saves on added packaging.
Canned Foods: Buy foods packed in glass only. Most metal cans are sprayed with a plastic liner to help it last much longer and avoid taking on a metallic taste. The only problem is that this plastic layer contains dangerous chemicals that can leach into your food over time.
Dieting: Diets help the environment all the way around. Less consumption means less packaging, less energy to heat meals, less trips to the store, better health, and will give you a good reason to donate all those old clothes to the Goodwill Store. Becoming lighter means you have less aversion to walking or jogging to your destinations.

Eat At Home: It’s much cheaper than eating out. Leftovers can only get better with time. Try making enough food at one time to put an extra lunch or dinner in the fridge. You’ll save on energy, money and time.

Eat Real Foods: Most packaged ready-to-eat foods contain high amounts of salt, sugar and preservatives. Some plastic wrapped foods contain trace amounts of BPA, an acronym you are going to want to become very familiar with.

Fresh Fish: Dangerous chemicals such as mercury and PCBs travel very quickly up the ocean food chain. Be sure to read up on the types of fish and the amount of dangerous chemicals each contain, especially if you are pregnant.

Frozen Food: Purchase frozen food that is packaged in cardboard containers. Foods sealed in plastic can absorb estrogen, BPA and other questionable chemicals listed as dangerous and cancerous.

Hidden Calories: Watch out for the extra calories hidden in rich desserts. With desserts made at home, many high fat components can easily be replaced with low fat alternatives. Search low fat recipes on the web for ideas on how to cut fat and calories without skimping on nutrition or taste.


Hydroponics: Hydroponics is a great way to grow your own organic fruits and vegetables. Add Tilapia to the mix and you have an excellent survival system for growing your own protein and starches.
Local Growers: Try to eat locally grown, organic fruits and vegetables in season. You may find cheaper alternatives to organic however they may have traveled thousands of miles which uses added energy to transport, be harvested by underpaid labor, and can be grown under questionable circumstances using pesticides and fertilizers not allowed for use in the USA.

Microwaves: Be careful about the containers you use when you nuke your food. Certain chemicals can leech into the meals you eat. Unfortunately our government can be slow to catch many of these problems and even slower to act upon them.
Pesticide-Absorbent Fruits and Vegetables: Learn which fruits and vegetables are prone to soaking up pesticides and becoming part of the product and not something that easily washes off. There are over ten that you want to avoid except when purchased at organic farms. There are even more that tend to be free of any internal or external pesticides and chemicals. Do your research now and save you and your family’s health over time.
Preserve Your Own Food: Learning to preserve your own foods could prove to be very valuable later on during lean economic times. Keeping your jars and lids for another use is a great way to recycle. Search the web for canning and preserving tips.
Start your own backyard garden: Nothing tastes better than eating the fresh fruits and vegetables you grow yourself. You can experiment with natural pest remedies that don’t poison you or the environment. Squash and egg plant are very easy to grow and can provide low calorie dishes for you at huge savings.
USDA Organic Foods: Modern agriculture can be very destructive by causing soil erosion and water pollution when pesticides and fertilizers run off into rivers and oceans. Research your labels carefully to find out which ones reflect the most integrity when it comes to dispensing accurate information.