How to Eat Right & Save the Planet

How to Eat Right & Save the Planet by Bill Tara

In no other book will you find such a comprehensive discussion of the key factors that should be driving our food choices.

J. Morris Hicks, author of Healthy Eating, Healthy World

This is an absolute must read for anyone who is concerned about the environment, suffering of animals and human and non-human health.

Anteneh Roba, MD, Founder of the International Fund for Africa

The ethical wasteland of Big Business, Big Medicine, Power Politics, and Advertising has manufactured a diet that is the root cause of so many diseases, including diabetes, heart disease, and cancer, as well as a broad range of common ailments. It has also created an industry that kills over 70 billion land animals every year. Too few of us realize how our food choices actually contribute to the climate change we are now experiencing worldwide. Recognizing and understanding the impact of our food choices is the first important step in reversing habits that damage the body, heart, and soul.

How to Eat Right and Save the Planet cuts through the hype and nutritional confusion that surround us by first showing how they hide the truth. It then explains how the food that we eat can be a massive force for good in creating personal, social, and environmental health. The author not only provides vital nutritional facts based on the latest dietary and medical research, but also explains in plain English how our diet impacts social justice and environmental sustainability.

How to Eat Right and Save the Planet offers a complete guide to creating a healthy and earth friendly diet for you and your family. With this book in hand, you will understand that each of us can take back control of our health, our family's health, and, to a great degree, the health of this planet--and it can all begin with our next meal.

Since 1967, Bill Tara has been a vocal proponent of natural health treatment. He has taught at the Kiental Institute in Switzerland and Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado as a senior faculty member. For four years, he was Chairman of the European Macrobiotic Assembly, and for two years, he was Chairman of the North American Macrobiotic Congress. He was also the Director of Natural Health Care at the SHA Wellness Clinic in Spain. In Europe and North America, Tara has worked as a health counselor, teacher, author, entrepreneur, and founder of health education facilities. As a seminar leader, he has traveled to more than twenty nations to teach traditional ways to health, healing, and personal development.

He has spoken on food policy and human ecology on a variety of radio and television programmes in England, America, and Australia. The author founded the Community Health Foundation in London, England, which was the world's largest natural health education center. He was a co-founder of the Kushi Institute and served as the Executive Director of its London and Boston programs. He conducts macrobiotics, vegan nutrition, and natural health care courses and intense training alongside his wife, Marlene Watson-Tara.