You Are What You Eat?
| Contributed by Liam Blume RESOURCES TO HELP WITH YOUR DIET AND LIFESTYLE Do you want to eat healthier, live in a cleaner environment, feel better and contribute to others by sharing with them how you are doing it? There are so many ways to do it. Below you will find resources to help you with that. Some are edgy in how they present their views or facts and some are more mainstream and neutral. Either way, have fun exploring their views and making use of their resources. We support your passion to live a life of purpose. No doubt, to live (it) to the fullest, we need to be healthy. As Co-Founder Bart Potenza of the restaurant Candle Cafe in NYC can be heard telling his customers and workers, "Go To 'Health'!" Eat up the information below and let us know what you've learned from these resources. Better yet, share with us some more resources or submit to us a story you are passionate about. DELECTABLE WEBSITES  Sustainable Table celebrates local sustainable food, educates consumers on food-related issues and works to build community through food. Projects include The Meatrix, award-winning, humorous animations on industrial agriculture and The Daily Table, their deliciously popular blog. Visit www.sustainabletable.org to help save small family farms!  Produced by Sustainable Table and Free Range Studios, The Meatrix, The Meatrix II: Revolting, and The Meatrix II 1/2 expose the dirty truth behind today's industrial meat and dairy production.The movies use action and humor to educate audiences, while the Sustainable Table website offers alternatives to the problems with industrial agriculture. Know Your Body, Know Your World "The human body is the universe in miniature. That which cannot be found in the body is not to be found in the universe. Hence the philosopher's formula that the universe within reflects the universe without. It follows, therefore, that if our knowledge of our body own could be perfect, we would know the universe." - Mahatma Gandhi Finding an expert who can help you to know your body and connect better to the universe can be difficult. One person, Joanne DiMauro, has dedicated her life to being of service to others in this way. She brings the important factors of looking at your diet and health from a holistic point of view and knows that no one diet fits all. Check her out at Know Your Body. Perhaps you'd like to learn more about how your lifestyle and food can affect your health and well-being and outlook on life. Check out the Institute for Integrative Nutrition. Guide to Eating Well (in your neighborhood or while traveling)  Eat Well Guide is a free online directory of thousands of family farms, restaurants, and other outlets for fresh, locally grown food in the US and Canada. Originally a database of sustainably-raised meat and dairy producers, its listings have expanded to include farmers' markets, CSA programs, partner organizations, water-conscious ratings and vegetarian eateries. Visitors can search by location, keyword or category to find good food, download customized guides, or plan a trip with the innovative mapping tool, Eat Well Everywhere. Eat Well is also home toThe Green Fork blog and the free print and online book Cultivating the Web: High Tech Tools for the Sustainable Food Movement.
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> Green Home is a one-stop shopping site with scads of green household products. > The Lazy Environmentalist spotlights "cutting-edge eco-friendly products and trends spanning topics like fashion, design, travel, transportation, building, and more." > For daily eco-tips delivered free to your inbox, sign up at Ideal Bite. BOOKS FOR RAVENOUS READERS: True Green by Kim McKay and Jenny Bonnin Visually appealing, with color pictures and simple, upbeat information. Sustainable Living for Dummies by Michael Grosvenor Despite its title, this book speaks to you like an intelligent adult, with clear, easy to understand how-to information. The Carbon Buster's Home Energy Handbook by Godo Stoyke This handbook helps you analyze which home energy-saving measures yield the highest returns for your pocketbook as well as the environment. WorldChanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century Edited by Alex Steffen This coffee table worthy compendium of innovative solutions, ideas and inventions can both feed your imagination about the future AND give you ideas for today.
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