environment – Foodaware

2. Step for eating better: Why and how to change your food environment

In an ideal world, we would be surrounded by healthy food and our environment would encourage us to eat well but unfortunately, the reality is far from that. Wherever we turn we see calorie-dense, nutrient-poor and unethically and harmfully produced food. This makes it incredibly difficult to diet or change your lifestyle for the better. It raises the question on how to deal with the constant temptation of cheap and tasty but junk food, if we want to eat healthy, ethically produced food. We can decide just to trust our self-control but we also have the choice to avoid the things we don’t want to eat.

Why our eating habits are less sustainable now than before?

Have you ever wonderd what the reasons are that our eating habits are less environmentally sustainable now then before? There are many contributing factors beginning with better living standards through population growth to our eating habits. Let’s find it out.

Coffee the sustainability pioneer

What do we know about the ecological footprint of coffee? That the coffee market is a pioneer in getting sustainable voluntarily, on the other hand, coffee production is still far from perfect. This article attempts to summarise the sustainability risks in coffee production and the environmental risks different producing countries are facing. Luckily, there are promising movements like the Sustainable Coffee Challenge who help to solve this problem and even consumers can do something for a change.

Problems of modern diet

Eating is a part of everyone’s life and although it has a great effect on a lot of things, many people don’t seem to think about it too much. Only if we think of it on a personal scale what we eat determines how much energy we will have during the day and not only the quantity but the quality of this energy. I think this carelessness happens for a very simple reason, that in 21st-century food is so easily available (especially for people living in the western society) that you can find something to eat wherever you are and whatever you do.