10 Eco-Nutrition Tips

1) Buy local – reduce carbon footprint by shopping for produce grown close to home, it is also more likely to be organic and less processed.

2) Eat seasonal – growing foods out of season requires loads of energy, travel a long distance or need to be grown indoors. Eat foods when they want to grow, while they are fresh at their highest nutritional density.

3) Eat more plant based foods – meat uses many more resources and a diet high in vegetables and fruit have much greater health benefits.

4) Drink tap or filtered water – bottled water is very un-green with its plastic bottles, manufacturing and miles travelled, your body needs hydrating and any option works equally well.

5) Buy foods with little packaging – why do we need it all anyway? More packaging usually equates to more processing and refining.

6) Make the bulk of your diet nutritionally dense foods – these are what we call the basics such as fish, vegetables, nuts, seeds, pulses, fruit, the purest forms of food that need little or no labelling to explain what they are.

7) Select sustainable – some foods may have great health benefits but they wont be around for long if we all go mad for them.

8) Trace food back to source – select food that you know is ethical and animal welfare friendly, no point worrying about your health if there isn't a plant left to enjoy it on.

9) Go for balance and variety – forget good food/ bad food the most nutritious diets involve a whole range of foods that should be enjoyed and indulged on, there is no one superfood that can replace this.

10) Grow your own – even if it's a few herbs on a window sill the more plants we grow the better it will be for our environment and they taste better.