Environment
It’s a win-win situation! A new study, published June 10, 2024, examines the health effects of the Planetary Health Diet (PHD) which was developed in 2019 as a part of the EAT-Lancet Commission. The goal of the EAT-Lancet Commission is to achieve planetary health diets for the projected total population of the earth by 2050,…
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The year 2024 has arrived, and as every new year rolls around, many of us turn our thoughts to what we hope this brand-new year will bring. My wish, as always, is that more people will begin to realize that increasing their intake of plant-sourced foods and decreasing animal-sourced foods is the most positive decision…
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Denmark recently announced a startling change in direction. In 2021, the Danish Council on Climate Change realized that their country was heading towards failure to meet its 2030 target of reducing greenhouse gas emissions to 70% of 1990 levels. Consequently, in October 2023, the country published their innovative roadmap towards the goal of transitioning Denmark’s…
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Consider the following realities; The activities required to produce human food are responsible for a third of the global greenhouse gas emissions caused by human activity (1) Animal-based foods contribute twice the greenhouse gas emissions of plant-based foods (2) A 50-gram serving of red meat is associated with at least 20 times…
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The Paris Agreement, resulting from the UN Climate Change Conference (COP21) that took place in Paris in 2015, was signed by 196 countries around the globe. The signing parties of this legally binding international treaty agreed to substantially reduce their global greenhouse gas emissions in order to limit the global temperature increase during this century…
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My name is Debra Harley (BScPhm) and I welcome you to my retirement project, this website. Over the course of a life many lessons are learned, altering deeply-rooted ideas and creating new passions.
