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An Ultimate Guide to Climatarian Diet
Are you keen to reduce your carbon footprint, but daunted by the idea of going fully vegetarian? The climatarian diet could be for you. Created by doctors at global nutrition app Lifesum the latest eco-diet is all about considering where your food comes from rather than completely cutting things out. If followed correctly, its founders say a climatarian diet could reduce your CO2 by 1.5 tons annually.
So, what does it involve?
Read on for an ultimate guide to Climatarian Diet!
What Is Climatarian Diet?
In simple terms, the climatarian diet encourages eating less of some foods and more of others. Though a plant-based diet is rooted in sustainability, greenhouse-grown vegetables flown across the globe to fill our plate may actually be increasing our carbon footprint.
Instead, the experts at Lifesum suggest a Climatarian diet can improve health and save the planet by reducing our CO2 by 1.5 tons annually - by eating plant-based, locally sourced produce when it's in season.
What can you eat on the Climatarian diet?
Lentils and beans
These eco-heroes are delicious and nutritious, and replacing beef with lentils and beans could get us up to 74% closer to meeting our carbon emissions.
Local and seasonal fruits and veggies
These have a particularly low carbon footprint, and buying local and seasonal reduces processing, packaging, transportation and food spoilage.
Whole grains, including pasta, brown rice and wheat
Lots of health benefits and less processing and energy requirements environmentally, which lowers our carbon footprint.
Nuts and seeds
The most eco-friendly include peanuts, hazelnuts, sunflower seeds, watermelon seeds and pumpkin seeds - a great protein source with a lower carbon footprint.
Chicken
Meat production, particularly beef and lamb, requires more land and water, and has higher carbon emissions. Swapping beef for chicken can decrease your carbon footprint by nearly half.
Being a climatarian is about thinking of the whole picture not just about where your food comes from, the miles it travelled and the resources used in its production.
It’s about choosing food that’s not wrapped in plastic, buying in bulk or loose to cut down on packaging, reducing food waste, composting food scraps, freezing leftovers, walking or cycling to the shop instead of driving.
These all contribute to a more climate-friendly diet.
“Eating more seasonal and local vegetables and less and better meat and dairy, while reducing food waste are the best things you can do to eat better for you and the environment.
Rules for the Climatarian Diet
Since it has the reduction of carbon emissions as its main goal, the climatarian diet looks very different from most other diets. Few foods are outright banned from a climatarian diet, and a greater focus is placed on where the foods were grown and under what conditions. Here are a few of the most important climatarian diet guidelines, from the folks over at climatarian.com:
Eat less meat. Meat is one of the most carbon-intensive food sources available, so cutting even one meal per week will drastically reduce your carbon footprint.
Avoid food waste. Shop carefully and plan ahead, and make sure to store your food properly so it doesn’t go to waste.
Choose local, seasonal food whenever possible. The less a food has traveled to get to you, the lower its carbon footprint.
Grow your own food, if you can. A small planter box with veggies and herbs goes a long way towards reducing your total carbon load.
Eat less meat. Meat is one of the most carbon-intensive food sources available, so cutting even one meal per week will drastically reduce your carbon footprint.
Avoid food waste. Shop carefully and plan ahead, and make sure to store your food properly so it doesn’t go to waste.
Choose local, seasonal food whenever possible. The less a food has traveled to get to you, the lower its carbon footprint.
Grow your own food, if you can. A small planter box with veggies and herbs goes a long way towards reducing your total carbon load.
Holy Shit?
Tuesday Topic Of The Day:
What your poop says about health
I know this topic is rather weird to say the least but I hope today I could bring my viewers some enlightening, and interesting facts about your stool!
Every 1-3 days (hopefully), our body shares an in-depth (it should sink) summary of our health. It’s called poop.
The ancient Chinese, Greeks, Egyptians, and many more ancient cultures monitored the shape, size, and texture of poop to diagnose health problems.
But, in this day and age, we have progressed to far more complex ways to measure our health and diagnose problems.
Frankly, we stopped giving a shit about our poop. Most people just cover it with TP and flush it down.
But, that’s all about to change. Our poop still has a lot to say about our health. And sometimes it’s the simplest things that shed the most light.
Why Poop Is Important π©
In our body, the digestive system is hugely influential. If it had an Instagram account, it would have trillions of followers from all locations in the body.
Not only does the digestive system have a large reach, but it’s also huge. The surface area of your gut is about 40 times larger than that of your skin. Forty!
And think about all of the money, time, and effort we spend on our skin. If we just put a little bit of that effort towards our guts, we’d all be better off.
Our gut is massively connected and important to our health. The gut has more nerves than our spinal cord. It produces 20 different hormones, significantly more than both male and female sex organs.
Plus, the bacteria in our gut manufacture 95% of our body’s supply of serotonin, the ‘happiness chemical’ that regulates our mood and anxiety.
Gut health and its mysterious connection to the brain is currently the topic of thousands of scientific studies.
What we know right now, is that people with irritable bowel syndrome or inflammatory bowel disease have a higher rise of anxiety or depression.
Your gut health and your mental health are linked.
We also know that in the UK, a fecal transplant is commonly used to cure illness. A fecal transplant is exactly what it sounds like — taking poop from a healthy donor and transplanting it into the intestines of a sick recipient.
Not only does the bacteria from the fecal matter cure symptoms, but doctors found that recipients started to crave the foods that the healthy donor was eating, making it a more long term solution.
Now that you’re both fascinated and disgusted, it’s time to learn what poop says about your health.
Bristol Stool Chart Type 1 (Severe Constipation)
- Passing fewer stools then three stools a week
- Having lumpy or hard stools
- Straining to have bowel movements
- Feeling as though there's a blockage in your rectum that prevents bowel movements
- Feeling as though you can't completely empty the stool from your rectum
- Needing help to empty your rectum, such as using your hands to press on your abdomen and using a finger to remove stool from your rectum
If you’ve experienced either Type 1 or 0 for over a week, you must get back to a healthy poop schedule. You should see a doctor and make significant lifestyle and diet changes.
When to see a doctor
Make an appointment with your doctor if you experience unexplained and persistent changes in your bowel habits.
...So what are exactly the main causes of being constipation?
well for one it's probably your diet and what you eat... obviously if your just sitting back and eating T.V dinners, ramen noodles and flushing it down with Mountain Dew... then you probably need to change that if you don't start eating well balanced meals then your not giving your not giving your health any favors!
Bristol Stool Chart Type 2 (Mild Constipation)
I'm really not going to go over this to much because all the information is really the same like Type 1 but it's less server then Type 1
Bristol Stool Chart Type 3 (Healthy Poop)
This is the best type of poop. It should come out easily and look like a dark brown sausage. It means you’re getting plenty of fiber and water.
Bristol Stool Chart Type 4 (Healthy Poop)
This is another normal, healthy type of poop. However, it’s getting a little soft, making it a snake-like and narrow stool.
Bristol Stool Chart Type 5 (Needs More Fiber)
These soft poops are easy to pass. They are blob-like with clear-cut edges. You need more fiber to increase poop density.
Bristol Stool Chart Type 6 (Mild Diarrhea)
It’s a mushy, shapeless pile that indicates mild diarrhea. This usually happens when your routine is derailed.
It could be that you’re drinking more alcohol than usual or you have mild food poisoning. It shouldn’t last more than a couple of days. Make sure you stay hydrated.
Bristol Stool Chart Type 7 (Severe Diarrhea)
There is no fiber in this poop, it’s completely liquid. You’ve got the runs, and if it persists for more than a couple of days you should see a doctor.
Remember to drink tons of water. Diarrhea dehydrates you quickly.
Stool Color and Health
You can also learn what your poop says about your health from the color. So, what color is a healthy stool?
The ideal poop health color is dark brown. All other colors are not normal and make good data points as you analyze your poop.
If you’re concerned about the color of your poop, there’s a useful WebMD article on what stool colors mean.
Healthy Poop Schedule
Pooping every day on a fairly consistent schedule is the goal.
However, according to this assessment of normal bowel habits, adult poop frequency is between three per week and three per day.
Also, healthy poop should only take about a minute to push out, and no longer than 15 minutes.
Conclusion is... eat more well balanced meals, exercise, and a drink more water. About 15.5 cups (3.7 liters) of fluids a day for men. About 11.5 cups (2.7 liters) of fluids a day for women. I mean it's not rocket science just take care of yourself because your important... also who wants to be constipated?
Also one more thing I should mention is that I AM NOT A DOCTOR! If you want farther information please do your own research or talk with your doctor if it's something serious hopefully it's not serious though and if your going through pooping please seek help!
Recourses:
https://www.ryanandalex.com/what-poop-says-about-your-health/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/constipation/symptoms-causes/syc-20354253
Tuesday Topic
Tuesday Topic Of The Day:
Surviving Inflation
So inflation, What Is It?
Inflation is the decline of purchasing power of a given currency over time. A qof prices, often expressed as a percentage, means that a unit of currency effectively buys less than it did in prior periods.
Inflation can be contrasted with deflation, which occurs when the purchasing power of money increases and prices decline.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Inflation is the rate at which the value of a currency is falling and, consequently, the general level of prices for goods and services is rising.
Inflation is sometimes classified into three types: Demand-Pull inflation, Cost-Push inflation, and Built-In inflation.
The most commonly used inflation indexes are the Consumer Price Index (CPI) and the Wholesale Price Index (WPI).
Inflation can be viewed positively or negatively depending on the individual viewpoint and rate of change.
Those with tangible assets, like property or stocked commodities, may like to see some inflation as that raises the value of their assets. quantitative estimate of the rate at which the decline in purchasing power occurs can be reflected in the increase of an average price level of a basket of selected goods and services in an economy over some period of time. The rise in the general level.
In the past years with covid-19 and other underlying issues inflammation is one of the main factors of why the gas prices are through the roof!
So what is there to do? How can you and I survive the increases of prices?
Well, I for one am not a financial expert but with the power of research I have a few solutions enabled to make do!
Substitute
Enjoy the same types of purchases but substitute lower-priced options. Go ahead and buy that new car, for example, but get a Chevy Spark ($12,170 to $16,435 manufacturer’s suggested retail price) instead of the Mini Hardtop ($20,450 to $24,100 MSRP) you had your eye on. (Better yet, buy a used car for even more value.)
Consumers already are making some price-conscious substitutions to keep up with inflation. Writes the Wall Street Journal:Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. this year raised steak prices by about 9 percent and chicken prices by about 5 percent.
“We have, in fact, seen some customers shift from steak to chicken,” chief financial officer Jack Hartung told analysts Monday.
2. Buy generics
Giving up your loyalty to brand names gives you protection from inflation in many categories. You can find equivalent quality (read and compare labels to be sure) by switching to grocery store brands, generic prescription products, store-brand over-the-counter medicines and store-brand clothing, to name a few examples.
3. Ask for a raise
Over the last six years, an average of 31 percent of organizations gave average raises of 3 percent or higher. In 2022, 44 percent of organizations are planning to give pay increases higher than 3 percent. In January 2022, inflation was 7.5 percent higher compared to a year earlier—a 40-year high.
In fact, about 85% of companies tell Pay scale they are worried about inflation, but most aren't giving pay increases to match it. Last month the annual inflation rate hit 7.5%, according to the latest consumer price index.
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