The Ethical Diet and the Impact on the Environment

Modern food choices already affect our health and the planet at the same time

What is the ethical diet? Well, as a result of all the environmental problems added to the health situations that many countries already face, this due to diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity and others, the trend is already clearer: We need to change our eating habits in conjunction with the care of earth. Our food choices already directly impact the planet health. What should we do? This NOT mean stop feeding or starving ourselves, it means balancing, planning and being aware of what we eat day by day.
Let's remember the diet styles that human beings have adopted over time:

1-Vegan.- Where you eliminate all kinds of products of animal origin.
2-Vegetarian.-Where you eat fruits, vegetables, legumes and grains and occasionally include animal products, it is less strict than vegan.
3-Omnivore.- Meats of all kinds, vegetables of all colors and flavors, dairy products but in a balanced way, always taking into account the necessary and rational intake.

What is the Ethical Diet? We believe that it is time to know

Taking into account the previous eating styles, which are respectable about them by the way, let's dive into these recommendations to be able to follow a responsible diet with your health, and with the environment.

a) Plan before buying.- We mean that we must to start choosing products that do not significantly impact the environment. The most common is beef, its production produces enormous pollution form cattle gases, coconut oil for example, thousands of acres are deforested each year for its production. Start looking for organic products, with apparently don't use chemicals in their production.

b) Promotes local consumption.- And this why? With this we avoid shipments and tranfers of products over long distances, with in the end, the transportations triggers pollution.

Modern food choices already affect our health and the planet at the same time

c) Increase consumption of vegetables in your diet.- Although production of vegetables already has an impact due to deforestation, this is minor than meat production. Consider it prudent looking for fruits and vegetables in your diet.

d) Read specifications of your product.- Nutritional list is already mandatory for each food or product. You can decide much better to select.

e) Avoid trivial purchases.- This implies that a product, no matter how famous it is and represents social status, does not mean that it is better than another that is not so famous and might have a higher quality and be minor invasive to the environment.

Remember that when you want to follow a specific diet, its very important to always be supervised by a doctor, this content is informative and educational, it will never replace the instructions of a professional.
The web of the Pan American Health Organization contains a lot of information about this topic. It's very important to become aware and aducate our way of eating and caring for the planet.

Due to the world situation about climate change and the health of humanity, the trend is to educate our consumption, informing us and investigating the origin of the products and services that satisfy our needs. With this, we will be taking a good step for the conservation of the planet and at the same time humanity