Live and Eat Green!

What is living and eating green you ask? Aside from eating the dark leafy greens, what I’m referring to is being environmentally friendly.

As with your health, personal accountability is essential for protecting and sustaining a healthy planet too! Our food choices and the way we shop for, prepare, and serve food can impact the environment. In addition, detoxifying our home environment will greatly impact planet Earth.

Let’s honour our planet this Earth Day and make everyday Earth Day by making small, meaningful, affordable and "greener" changes to our eating habits. Here are some "green" tips to help you get started.

Make a List before you head grocery shopping! – Make a list of everything you’ll need for preparing healthy meals at home before you head out the door. This will eliminate the need to make multiple trips to the store, saving your wallet and the environment from the fuel burned!

Use Canvas – Invest in reusable canvas bags! In addition to being eco-friendly, they are inexpensive and durable. The alternative paper and plastic bags aren’t eco-friendly choices. In fact, it takes gallons of crude oil to make plastic bags, and many trees are sacrificed to make paper bags.

Drink filtered tap water – North Americans buy billions of plastic water bottles every year, and every year those same billions of empty bottles get thrown in the garbage. Break the habit and use a neoprene or stainless steel bottle instead. Just get a good quality eco-friendly filter (LINK) and fill up your water bottle! One filter for the Get Clean water pitcher filters enough water to eliminate over 2,400 plastic water bottles from landfills! This pitcher also happens to be the only one currently on the market to eliminate lead from your drinking water.

Buy Local and Organic or start a small garden and eat less red meat – Buying locally grown food at a farmer’s market and growing a small herb and vegetable garden can cut down on the environmental costs associated with transporting produce. Eating organically grown fruit, vegetables and red meat is also a good way to reduce your exposure to pesticides and hormones in addition to help reduce the runoff and pollutants from "toxic" farming that can contaminate our water, soil, and air. Try fish or turkey as a red meat replacement once or twice a week. If you’re looking for cooking tips or recipes, email us at healthyweightdancingfeet@gmail.com.

Cook and Clean Up Efficiently– Save energy and speed up cooking times by covering pots. The lid will keep the heat in and bring what you’re cooking to the right temperature faster. When it’s time to clean up, make sure the dishwasher is "full" before you run it and use a quality biodegradable dishwash concentrate. If you have a small number of dirty dishes, think about doing them the old-fashioned way: by hand, using a full basin of water (no running water) and a biodegradable dish detergent.

Replace your household products - If you currently use traditional cleaners that are not only toxic for the planet but also harmful to your health, I strongly recommend you replace them with a quality eco-friendly highly concentrated cleaner. I recommend Get Clean for many reasons including the massive saving of money in my pocket. One kit replaces $3400 in traditional cleaners! When we first tried this line of green cleaners, after having used many others, we were impressed with the positive changes to our health. The best part was that my eldest daughter no longer had environmental allergies or skin sensitivities! This line also happens to be Oprah Winfrey's favourite cleaner, it's used by NASA and by the white house cleaning staff!

I also appreciate the corporate responsibility of the company, who was the first company to obtain Climate Neutral Certification. Five trees are planted with every kit purchased. With sales of their Get Clean line in the past 12 months alone, the company has eliminated 38 million pounds of packaging waste from going to landfills and 88 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions.

So make the small changes to be personally accountable to yourself and to your environment this Earth Month and every month going forward!

As the Native American Proverb goes, "We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children".

To your health,

Nadia

Your weight release partner

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