The Health Conscious Diet Is The Environmentally Conscious Diet
By Eric Haase, 07/19/04

   In our mass-media influenced society, where we are bombarded by images of physically fit, beautiful people, there is an incredible interest in what the proper diet is so that we may claim that hyper real body for our own. Diet books were 9% of all book sales in 2003. The health spa and gym industries also take in millions annually. However, even with all this interest over what should be put into our bodies, the American population suffers from specific diet related diseases at a disproportionate rate in comparison to most other populations.

     What can account for such a negative statistic in the so called "most advanced nation on the planet"? Could it be those ultra processed, preservative riddled, artificially flavored & colored "dead" foods we eat from boxes and cans? Or could it be the meat-centric, saturated fat laden fast food we catch on our 30-minute, eat-it-as-fast-as-you-can and get-back-to-work lunch breaks? It couldn't be. Those foods are so convenient, colorful, and tasty. Besides, that's the food those people with the beautiful bodies on TV are eating and selling us.. They wouldn't lie, would they? Well, they are lying. It is processed dead foods and the meatcentric diet which is giving us and the planet a host of diseases, including heart disease, diabetes, deforestation, soil erosion, certain cancers and many others.

   What diet fad do you follow? Which book by which health guru or pseudo doctor is right? Let’s scrap all that and get down to the basics. Discuss this, or other topics in our Forum.

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