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Improving your health through better nutrition turns out to be a great way to help reduce emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Eating a plant-based diet with less red meat has been associated with lower rates of chronic diseases like type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and some forms of cancer. A 2009 paper in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition describes the relationship between diet and greenhouse gas emissions. Raising livestock produces significant amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Growing fruits and vegetables is associated with significantly less greenhouse gas emissions than raising livestock. Eating less red meat and more fruits and vegetables could provide the dual benefits of promoting health and helping reduce the threat of global warming.
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Potential contributions of food consumption patterns to climate change
Diet and the environment: does what you eat matter?
Nutrition ecology: the contribution of vegetarian diets
The Mediterranean Diet: science and practice
Belgian City Plans “Veggie” Days
Climate Policies Improve Health
A Vegetarian Diet Reduces the Diner’s Carbon Footprint
Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis
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Dr. M,
this is a must read/watch/read study on TV watching death!
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/01/12/2790454.htm?site=science
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TV shortens your life span, study finds
Tuesday, 12 January 2010 Meredith Griffiths for AM
ABC
Researchers say the major risk factor was sitting instead of being active (Source: Giulio Saggin, file photo/ABC News)
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Television viewing has often been accused of rotting the human brain, but it seems the real risk may be that it is doing some damage to the rest of your body.
Australian scientists have published research showing a link which suggests that the more TV a person watches, the sooner they die.
The report, which appears in the journal Circulation,says every extra hour spent watching television increases people’s risk of premature death.
Professor David Dunstan of the Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute in Melbourne, followed more than 8000 Australian adults for six years. Rest of article on the site!
It is an Aussie study published today in Circulation and the American Heart Association’s pub…
I hope you can let us know what you think! Shannon for OZ
Dr M,
one of the most interesting findings from the article on Sitting and TV Watching is that exercise does not make up for damage to the body done whilst sitting….this should change the way Schools, workplace environments etc are structured!
Dr Katz from YALE Med School who had devised the ABC Program for schools, should now take the program into workplaces…
ABC stands for Activity Bursts in the Classroom…here is his site for evidence based research etc…
http://www.davidkatzmd.com/abcforfitness.aspx
And here is part of the Aussie study re exercise does not necessarily counteract 4 hours of sitting at a stretch…
“Sitting down
The report stresses that sitting too much is different from not exercising enough.
“The risk associated with prolonged sitting are also not necessarily offset by doing more exercise,” says Dunstan.
“Because in this study even people who were exercising, if they also watched high amounts of television, they had an increased risk of premature death.”
Dunstan says the team also has preliminary evidence indicating that nearly three-quarters of the working hours of office-based employees are spent sitting down.
Trevor Shilton from the Heart Foundation says the research highlights a vitally important new field of study.
“In just a couple of generations we’ve gone from being a very active people to people who sit around for most of the day,” he says
“I can foresee a time where we will have, in addition to our guidelines, a defined 30 minutes of physical activity, also guidelines about moving more and standing more throughout the day.
“And about sitting less, standing up every 20 minutes, going for a walk at work, having rules around television and computer times for our kids.”
Hi Dr. Monte,
Glad to catch up with you again and I agree with your podcast conclusions regarding raising beef. We are still raising grass-fed beef but will not be taking any action to increase or maintain our current (small) herd size. I think beef was “sustainable” in the US before we plowed up the Great Plains and before we put up fences and began “managing” cattle.
I enjoy eating my home-grown beef, but have come to the conclusion that it is not a sustainable practice. If I or anyone else needs animal protein, home-grown chickens or goats have a much small impact on the environment. I don’t believe any of us should have to eat animal protein more than two or three times a week at a maximum.
Dr. Monty
I love the new podcast. I think you’ve taken the right direction. I hope you aren’t stopping this and just got a little busy. I’m anxious to hear the next episode.
take care
Would really lighten my day to get another podcast from you sir. Seems almost a void now with so many of the veteran podcasters out there closing the shutters.