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America could be the breadbasket to the world. Instead the Standard American Diet (acronymed as S.A.D.) kills in  various & sundry ways. Americans have one of the world’s highest rates of heart disease (you call it a disease, but it’s really a CHOICE). Your bloody choice also contributes to planetary problems as meatcentric diets become popular in other parts of the world.

The core of the problem is the vast amount of natural capital it takes to produce a meat-centric diet. According to your “Worldwatch Institute”, “Perhaps the greatest potential for increasing food use efficiency lies in reducing consumption of meat, a grain intensive food… Reducing consumption of livestock, especially beef, could free up massive quantities of grain & reduce pressure on land”. Read the rest of this entry →

By E. Originally published on The Conscious Consumers’ Network on 07/19/04

In our mass-media influenced society, where we are bombarded by images of physically fit, beautiful people, there is an enormous 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. Thoey’re FDA a& USDA pproved so they must be O.K., right? ‘Its’ the same food those people with the beautiful bodies oin the TV commercials are eating .and 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. Read the rest of this entry →