9 eco-friendly diets

Be green and lean

Is it time to lose the extra holiday pound? This new year, don't just decide to cut calories, determination to eat a healthier diet for you and this planet. Here are nine diets to help you lose weight and trace your carbon simultaneously. (Text: Julie Knapp)

 

Real Food Diet

Most of the food on the supermarket shelves was found in the last century and packed with unprotected materials. Whatever your great grandmother won't call forbidden food in a real diet. Farm fresh food, products in season, meat, eggs, milk, and good fat - not the type produced chemically - will lead to nutritious food naturally.

 

 

Locavore Diet

While most of the food runs 1,300 to 2,000 miles before arriving at your desk, the Locavore diet focuses on food produced within 100 miles of where you live. Finding fresh food in the farmer market, family farm, local bakery, co-ops food, a community-supported community or your own garden will reduce your carbon footprint and your waist.

Eco Atkins Diet

The high protein carbohydrate atkins regime containing animal fats is far from green and only in good health. But eco Twist follows the same carb-to-protein ratio using herbal proteins such as soy, beans and NO-starch gluten. Researchers have found weight loss with diet and have reduced their bad cholesterol (LDL) levels at the same time:

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BPA-Free Diet

Bisphenol-A (BPA) has been linked to a number of health problems, including obesity and type II diabetes, but it always hides in many foods. Cut it from your diet and you will need to give up most canned foods, packed foods with waxy liners, foods with metal lids and frozen foods. What's left? Fresh healthy, unpacked and fresh food without chemical additives.

 

 

 

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Vegetarian Diet

Even if you still eat eggs and dairy products, VE can reduce your carbon footprint by almost a ton every year. You will also reduce your water footprint because animals and their diet require a lot of H2O. Choose healthy products and legumes (you can not enter carbohydrates and cheese only) and you should reduce your risk of illness and weight:

 

 

Flexitarian Diet

If eliminating meat from your diet is too extreme, the flexitarian diet may be more your style. Basically, it’s a vegetarian diet that allows you to cheat and eat meat once in awhile. Eat meat only on the weekends or make pacts to skip meat a few times a week with traditions like “Meatless Mondays.”

 

Vegan Diet

Taking the extra step from vegetarian to vegan doubles the impact on your carbon footprint — reducing it by about two tons. In addition to meat, vegans consider dairy, eggs and other animal-derived ingredients or those processed using animal products off limits, too

Raw Diet

Often vegans, raw foodists typically eat 75 percent fruits and vegetables. The rest of the diet includes whole grains, nuts, beans and sprouted seeds. Instead of cooking meals, food is served raw or dehydrated. You’ll save energy by not cooking and lower your carbon footprint by giving up meat and packaged foods.

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