Healthy You • Healthy Earth • Healthy You

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  • What Follows Sweet-Drink Free Sunday? Meatless Monday!

    Small Changes Support Climate Minimize Meat for Your Health Eating less meat brings up lots of questions and concerns. Debate around this topic goes from A to Z — ‘I Adore meat!‘ to ‘Zero meat intake is the only way to go!‘ Personally, I fall somewhere in-between but more on the “less meat” end of…

  • It’s Not Your Fault

    All the Snacks and Plastics Coming At You Are Hard to Avoid In my previous two posts (How Sweet It Is – or Is It?) and (Sweet-Drink Free Sunday), I put a lot on YOU! Instead, I would like to help you find some of the Ease that I wrote about in my very first…

  • Sweet-Drink Free Sunday

    Start Slaying your Sweet-tooth and Save the Planet In my previous post, my hope was to give you some inspiration to improve your health while moving beyond plastics. You’ll be healthier, the earth will be healthier, and thus you’ll be even healthier — a great example of healthy you > healthy earth > healthy you!…

  • How Sweet It Is — Or Is It?

    Making Healthy Beverage Choices Can Be Healthy for the Planet Facing the Truth ABOUT Your Sweet Tooth There’s not much I can write about sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages that hasn’t already been said. But here are some highlights (or rather lowlights!). So it’s a good idea to be careful with sodas, sports drinks, energy…

  • My Climate Story

    Why does the climate matter to me? Even though I was not able to have any children — so I will never have grandchildren, or great-grand children, or great-great grandchildren — I feel a huge sadness because of the burden we have left to our young people. Greed and ignorance have made a global mess…