Enlightened Eating: The Eightfold Path to Health

Few Americans need to worry about having enough to eat; instead, we worry about how to lose weight. We ve settled on eating animals as the way to control weight and satisfy hunger, yet over 70 percent of us remain overweight. We need to learn a new hunger a hunger for a way to eat that benefits us, other people, and the Earth. We can ask ourselves How should I think about my food? How does it affect the world around me? What s my relationship to where my food comes from and how it's produced? The answers lead us to eat nutrient-rich, calorie-sparse food--and that food is plants!