It recently occured to me that in taking better care of our bodies, we're really doing the environment and future generations a favor. Like, in walking instead of driving, we reduce carbon emissions and burn calories. In choosing to eat fresh (preferably organic) foods, we take out that little bit of business from farmers that choose to use harmful pesticides. Every little bit does add up, though!
I have lived for most of the last two years in a small town that's big on the environment. We're surrounded by soem of the world's tallest trees on one side and the Pacific ocean on the other. In these two years, I've found myself choosing to spend a few more cents to have organic fresh fruits and a few more dollars to have organic meats. I rarely eat out (this includes fast food), and I've been able to walk most places, since this is such a small area. In making these small, and for me, at least, easy changes in my daily routine, I have lost nearly thirty pounds in two years, and I would expect my 'carbon footprint' has decreased dramatically. I'm moving to a large city for school soon, and I only hope I'll be able to maintain my healthy new lifestyle.
I believe that living healthy, full lives postively impacts not only ourselves, but also our communities, and eventually, the environment.
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I do agree with you on the doing your part, though I don't see how organic foods help to achieve those ends. They still have to be harvested which usually involves some sort of machine (or some sort of team of underpaid illegal aliens). All organic means to me is that the food is more likely to have bugs on/in it.
--Mike
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Organic foods aren't sprayed with pesticide. Pesticide seems like a good idea, but personally I prefer not to cover my foodstuffs with poison sprays. And since many organic foods are grown hydroponically, bugs aren't an issue. I've never once found a bug in organic food; have you?
(if you can't see the fnords they won't eat you)
And by foods, you mean pot...
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Okay, so you feel that it is important to put only good things in your body, that I can almost understand. I guess you are trying to make up for some bad things you did in the past. Or maybe there really is something to the fact that we are exposed to a multitude of substances which our bodies don't know how to handle, since in the entirety of human existence they (our bodies) where only exposed rarely to new substances which were usually organic and even more often non-toxic except for in the last one hundred years which in an exponentially increasing rate we (those of us with bodies) are consumers of things which never existed on the earth before that have ravaging effects on some (of those with bodies) and slow deleterious (you can't spell deleterious without delete) effects on the human body (one of those things that you have or are or inhabit or oh well, you know).
That much sort of makes sense, but with all that crap in the air and in what we eat and drink I think it would be healthier to become anorexic eating as little as possible and to hold our breath as much as possible.
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