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Adopting healthy green eating methods for a better you

Organic food, cage free eggs, genetically modified foods have become a part of life and are largely sweeping the sustainable food movement. These foods are known to have better impact on people’s health and such trends are good for the planet as well.

Following are the ways to adopt eco-friendly eating:

Avoid buying bottles

drink water

Try to lessen up the habit of buying water bottles that use tons of plastic. Switch to a reusable water bottles or start drinking from the tap. Do not worry about your health; most of the bottled water is worse than the tap water. Buying plastic water bottles is just like ego massaging the self, that you are consuming healthy and clean water.

Start eating it raw

carrots

There are foods that can be eaten raw and taste great. Chomp down a raw carrot and eat it instead of boiling it. Once you avoid these boiling or sautéing procedures, you contribute in saving the power and energy that would have otherwise been wasted on the cooking procedures.

Seasonal eating

eating leafy green vegetables

This allows you to eat local. Eating local helps you in greatly reducing your carbon footprints. Eating local enables consumption of fresh foods that has better nutrient content and is highly good for health especially in comparison to shipped food.

Use real crockery

taking meal tgether

Though using disposables is an easy option, remember it contributes you to increase the levels of waste so produced. Using real crockery, napkins, bowls etc will only increase your workload for dishwashing but will save you doing the worse.

Cook multiple meals

lady cooking  as good as a chef

Cooking multiple meals at one time will help you save energy. Cooking small meals and in a greater frequency uses more energy.

Say no to antibiotics injected meat

eating meat

In order to increase the supply of the meat in the markets, the animals are injected with various antibiotics for the growth process in them to increase. This instills various diseases in the animals that are transferred even to the people who consume such meat. Avoid such meat as it has a bad health impact on the consumers

Avoid items with excessive packaging

reusable grocery bag

Food with excessive packing is harmful for consumption, as packaging requires the use of materials that are bad for human health. Mostly packaging is made up of unsustainable materials that contribute in increasing the waste materials.

Summary

Eco friendly measures of eating help in reducing the carbon footprints so produced. It also keeping up your health charts on a positive.

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