By Alex Baran
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Project Weight Loss Staff Writer
June 18, 2009Going green is a trend that is gaining popularity. Many people think it’s expensive to live green, but that’s not true. If you think about it, going green is all about healthy lifestyle, leading to healthy environment. A healthy life means less money spent on medicines and a healthy environment means less money spent to be healthy. Also, why shouldn’t you lose weight with a green diet?
Try eating organically produced food. Organic agriculture is sustainable, so it can be continued indefinitely. Also choose seasonal food and eat local. By doing that, you will support local farms. Think how much energy they will save giving up refrigerators to transport them miles and miles away, not to mention it will be reduced the gas consumption and emissions.
Many cities take this initiative to help the environment, their local farms, and help you eat healthy. Eating foods grown not more than 100 miles from where you live, you’ll digest and absorb easier the nutrients from those foods, because your body and them live in the same environment.
Eat a variety of foods – expand your range of choices by choosing food that you don't normally eat. Don’t forget you’re trying to lose weight, so I’m talking about whole grains, vegetables and fruits.
Refined foods make your body's nutritional system become confused, clogged, and locked into fat storing mode. Eat whole foods and you’ll lose weight – they are nutritionally complex and complete. To make sure their products have higher validity on the market, the producers use thousand additives that, in time, may have side effects on your body.
This diet was adapted for the modern world, but it is out there for years, we just forgot about it. This is a win-win situation for your body and the Planet – let’s rebuild the natural trophic chain!
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