Cooking tips
Buy Local Food : Take a child shopping with you, pick up one of the offending products and say quite loudly "Well we’re not buying that, think of the energy it’s used up just getting here!"
Buy Fairtrade Food : The FAIRTRADE Mark is an independent consumer label which appears on products as an independent guarantee that disadvantaged producers in the developing world are getting a better deal.
For a product to display the FAIRTRADE Mark it must meet international Fairtrade standards. These standards are set by the international certification body Fairtrade Labelling Organisations International (FLO).
Producer organisations that supply Fairtrade products are inspected and certified by FLO. They receive a minimum price that covers the cost of sustainable production and an extra premium that is invested in social or economic development projects.
- Find out which fair trade products are available at which supermarkets
- Get involved in fair trade campaigns.
Diet types
The South Beach Diet
The South Beach diet is a diet started by Miami-based cardiologist arthur agatston which emphasizes the consumption of "good carbohydrates" instead of "bad carbs" and "good fats" instead of "bad fats"
Agatston invented this diet for people who have cardiac problems, as a result of his detailed analysis of scientific research completed on other nutritional studies.
Examples of good foods include, lean beef, skinless poultry, shellfish, low or fat free cheeses, peanuts, nonfat yoghurt and certain vegetables, like artichokes, lettuce and sprouts.