Healthy Diet, Healthy Environment

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The most environmentally friendly foods are often the healthiest ones for human consumption, and many foods that are damaging to our bodies are also damaging to the environment.


This should make tons of sense since our bodies have a strong likeness to the environment as we share the same organic compounds and chemical makeup. It is starting to become common knowledge that the livestock industry contributes most of the environmental pollution we see today. The livestock industry generates more greenhouse gas emissions than transportation! And you thought the car was the only enemy. Well, they have nothing on the meat you are probably chowing down on right now.


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The inverted environmental pyramid shows ecologically-damaging foods at the very top, such as meat and cheese. As you look down the pyramid, you’ll find fish, olive oil, other dairy products, and legumes. At the bottom are the least ecologically-damaging foods such as fruits and vegetables.

The food pyramid, which sits like a regular pyramid, features fruits and vegetables across the bottom, as the healthiest things for us to be eating, followed by grains, dairy, fish, eggs, and meat.

And before you argue that "meat is needed because it is the main source of protein", let me tell you that you are WRONG. More protein can be found in a piece of broccoli than you can ever find in a fork full of meat. You are only consuming the protein the animal ate. So don't be lazy, go straight to the source and eat your own vitamins!


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Before You Flush That Toilet ..

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"If its yellow, let it mellow. If its brown, flush it down."

Now of course don't do this if you are at a friends home or using a public restroom. But at home, why not? Personally, I do it in the comfort of my own home. Why? Water conservation. Brazil is experiencing their worst drought in 80 years while California is experiencing their worst drought in 1,200 years!

The toilet consumes the greatest amount of water (30%) of any device in the average home. The average person in the United States uses anywhere from 80-100 gallons of water per day. Flushing the toilet actually takes up the largest amount of this water.

And this is why we have amazing green companies such as Why Flush? With Why Flush, you save 1,200 gallons of clean water with every 16 oz bottle. If you just cannot stand the sight of urine in your toilet bowl, just spray a bottle of Why Flush into your toilet and it is supposed to "capture and neutralize the odor of urine, replacing it with a pleasant smell of citrus. Why Flush counteracts the staining chemicals in urine to help keep your toilet bowl clean. Finally, it leaves the water in the bowl an appealing blue-green color."

"If 1% (1M) of US Households used Why Flush, we so would save roughly 7.2 billion gallons of water annually."


I just purchased my first bottle and will be using it soon! Stand by for product review



While you are waiting, enjoy a few water facts ! :)

• Water covers 70.9% of the Earth’s surface.
• Only 3% of Earth’s water is fresh water. 97% of the water on Earth is salt water(undrinkable)!! So we only have a fraction to work with!!
• 1.7% of the world’s water is frozen and therefore unusable.
• 68.7% of the fresh water on Earth is trapped in glaciers.
• The water found at the Earth’s surface in lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, and swamps makes up only 0.3% of the world’s fresh water
• 30% of fresh water is in the ground.

How to Cut Heat Costs this Winter!

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• TURN THE HEAT DOWN Turn your heat off or lower your thermostat while you're asleep, at work or just simply leaving the house for awhile. Wear extra warm pajamas and grab and extra blanket!


• LET THE SUN SHINE IN ! Open curtains on south-facing windows to let sunlight in during the day. Then close them at night to help retain heat.


• BODY HEAT Groups of people generate a significant amount of heat so, if you are having guests over, turn down your thermostat a notch or two. They wont even notice!


• CHANGE THOSE FILTERS Do not be lazy and ignore those "change filter" messages on your thermostat. Dirty filters make your heating inefficient which makes them work harder and uses more energy. Also, they can make you sick with allergens!


• RUN FANS IN REVERSE Did you know that by changing the direction of the fan to counterclockwise will push warm arm into circulation as opposed to cold air?


• TURN DOWN THE WATER HEATER You can lower energy costs 6 to 10 percent by lowering the temperature to 120 degrees, instead of the standard of 140 which is too high anyway.

Hope this helps!