I’ve been in a war with food my entire life!
Right on the heels of a sleep specialist suggesting (where have I heard this before? LOL) that I keep a food diary, some interesting emails appeared in my inbox from Mindfulness magazine.
Thought I’d share some info and perhaps spur a conversation on your relationship with food.
Practicing mindfulness around food can be helpful in numerous ways:
Raisin Mindfulness
A well known mindfulness eating exercise exercise based on the work Jon Kabat-Zinn, PhD., founder of Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and author of best-selling book, Wherever You Go, There You Are
Is a vegetarian diet really more environmentally friendly than eating meat?
… in addition to the impact of air miles, global land and resource use determine the sustainability of the food we eat -- food production can destroy or displace natural resources in order to supply growing demand. Changing land use to expand avocado production in Mexico, for example, is displacing the rainforest.
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It's not just meat that increase greenhouse gases. Rice -- produced on 163m hectares, around 12% of the global arable area -- has one of the greatest plant carbon footprints because it produces a lot of methane.
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But it is day-to-day food waste -- both at home and in supply chains -- that can make any diet unsustainable whether you choose to be vegan, vegetarian, a meat eater or a combination of these. Different preservation formats can reduce food waste to zero. In the case of frozen food we know food waste can be halved compared with fresh foods -- less of it is thrown away.