Lifestyle Changes Can Improve Health And Environment

Now, OF COURSE we all know this, don’t we?

Source: http://www.meatfreemondays.com/study-reveals-lifestyle-changes-can-improve-both-health-and-environment/

An excerpt:

“We’re getting fatter, we’re getting heart attacks, strokes, diabetes, respiratory ill health, depression and anxiety – and virtually all the things we want to do to protect us against climate change will improve our health,” said Anthony Costello, professor of international child health at UCL.

Nowhere is the link between lifestyle and global warming better evidenced than on the meat-laden plates of western industrialised countries.

Not only does a growing body of evidence indicate that high meat consumption can increase the risk of obesity and diseases such as cancer, but industrial-scale livestock farming contributes to rising levels of harmful greenhouse gases, such as methane.

Hugh Montgomery, professor of intensive care medicine at UCL, and a supporter of Meat Free Monday, said: “A lot of high-carbon lifestyles are desperately unhealthy. Not having to treat people because they’re not sick is actually the biggest win of all.”

He added that raising fewer animals for meat and dairy would drastically cut methane emissions, preventing “a lot of strokes, heart disease, bowel cancer and so forth”.

Figures from the European Commission suggest that even an incremental reduction in harmful greenhouse gases could save up to £25 billion in healthcare costs.

But the trick is to practise it. Knowing and talking about it aren’t good enough.

Doing is what brings results.

Besides eating less meat, here’s another thing you could do too:

Choosing to walk or cycle rather than drive is another example of an activity that can contribute to improved health while reducing environmental degradation, in this case pollution caused by car journeys.

Come ride with me?

If you have been experiencing discomfort while cycling, I find this tremendously helpful: http://ternbicycles.blogspot.jp/2015/05/position.html?m=1

And, No Helmet, No Ride.

Source: https://myanimalcare.org/2015/07/20/lifestyle-changes-can-im..

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