Recipe for Survival
What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life

Entertaining, easy-to-understand book by dietitian Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes on how to improve our own and our planet's health.

Dana Ellis Hunnes (Author)

9781108832199, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 27 January 2022

346 pages
23.5 x 15.9 x 2 cm, 0.69 kg

'Each of us has the power and the potential to change the world for the better. We can all make a difference when we harness our passion to the virtues of courage and imagination. Dana Ellis Hunnes understands the power of one, and the need to focus our energies in the present in order to define what the future will be. Recipe for Survival provides both guidance and answers and she has the courage to say what needs to be said.' Captain Paul Watson, Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species. This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously.

Part I. 1. Agriculture is a Major Driver of Climate Change (and Disease)
2. Politics and Dietary Guidelines, Two Major Problems
3. Overfishing: There is No Such Thing as Sustainable Fish
4. Plastic, It's What's for Dinner
5. Environmental Exploitation
6. Species Exploitation for Entertainment
7. The Positives – Examples of the 'Good' Being Done Around the World
Part II: 8. Protecting Earth – One Recipe at a Time – An Introduction
9. Epilogue: Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways
Appendix: Recipes You Can Use
References
Index.

Subject Areas: Fitness & diet [VFM], Sustainable agriculture [TVF], Social impact of environmental issues [RNT], Climate change [RNPG], Environmental management [RNF], Environmental medicine [MMR], Dietetics & nutrition [MBNH3], Environmental factors [MBNH2]