Trying to Eat Healthy and Stay Green

Staying healthy in this day and age can be real work, can't it? Our ancestors had exercise built into their day, all that lifting and bending and just...doing things all day in order to provide enough food and shelter to survive.

Nowadays many of us work at computers or other jobs where we're more stationary than we might like to be. We have to make an extra effort to get up and move around, things our great-great grandmothers (or great-great grandfathers) never had to do (try to think of a Colonial woman on a treadmill or Queen Victoria doing Pilates. That would be...interesting, wouldn't it)?

Still, we make the effort (stay with me here. We make the effort, don't we? Now nod your head).  And we watch our diets, too. We don't eat too much chocolate, because we have wills of iron, right? (Nod again).

I think we should at least get credit for making the effort even when we (occasionally) fall down on the job.

One thing that helps me is just making sure I have enough information so I can make informed food choices. I try to be a smart shopper and a smart eater (and sometimes I succeed, too). So, yes, I'm not perfect (please don' tell me you're perfect), but I keep working at it. Adding fish to my diet when I grew up as a non-fish eater is one way. But which fish to eat? How do I know the fish I'm eating is safe?

Here's a website that can help. The Monterey Bay Aquarium has all kinds of information about seafood and especially about the best seafood to eat (sustainable, high in Omega 3's and low in contaminants). Try it!

And if you think of any good "good eating tips," please share them with me in the Comments section below.


Stay healthy! You matter.