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But, in the case that you are too busy to read right now, or don’t have time or money to buy it, I’ll once again be generous and give you some free tips. Here are today’s:

1) Be Mindful About Eating Animal Foods

Experts believe that only about 10-15% of our calories should come from animal foods. This is backed up by the fact that only four of our 32 teeth (incisors) are meant for cutting flesh. The rest are better for chewing grains and vegetables. There is also hard data from The China Study, by T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D., on disease rising rapidly over 15%.

Given the facts that animal foods tend to be from lower quality sources (factory farms, not free-range, fed an unnatural diet, given antibiotics, shipped long distances, colored and irradiated insteaded of being fresh), our health can be compromised, both short term and long term. This has been seen time and again with ecoli, listeria, etc., causing sickness and death all over our nation. Furthermore, it is believed that Alzheimers and many other conditions, are as a direct result of diets high in animal fat.

When we eat large amounts of animal foods, without being mindful, we often don’t want to think about the pain and suffering of the animal, nor what it does to our environment. But in the process of closing down our sensitivity, we lose our intuition, and moral compass. Then we are more likely to get into an accident, or hurt someone we love by being selfish or ego-driven. We are witnessing this all over the place. There is a great wealth of evidence about this, and a wonderful book called The World Peace Diet, by Will Tuttle, PhD. covers this as well.

So be more mindful. Eat less animal foods, and choose organic when you do. Say a prayer for the animals, and don’t waste animal foods. And if you get a chance, read The China Study, or The World Peace Diet.

2) Learn to Cook and Cook Every Day, with Mostly Organic, Plant-Based Foods, Local and In Season

This is very difficult to do, even if you shop at Whole Foods. More and more organic foods are coming from Chile, Mexico, and elsewhere. Used to be, all produce was local and organic. It can be this way again, and eventually, my bet is, it will be. However, it may take a calamity to bring it. So far, the loss of 50% of the bees, and many other species, and rampant suffering by animals, and disease by humans, and massive pollution of our air, water and soil has not helped us change our food system. But it takes time.

Meanwhile, do your best. Take a cooking class. Buy a cookbook, and use it. At a minimum, cook one healthy meal for yourself and your family every day, with a boiled grain, an organic vegetable, and possibly legumes, sea vegetables, nuts, seeds, and miso or pickle. My family cooked three organic, plant-based meals yesterday. We loved the food, it cost us less, and we feel good about the health benefits.

We belong to a CSA, Stearns Farm in Framingham, which helps a lot.

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