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Sara Gilbert

The Imperfect Environmentalist - A Practical Guide to Clearing Your Body, Detoxing Your Home, and

English · Paperback / Softback

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Zusatztext Advance praise for The Imperfect Environmentalist “This book really opened my eyes. Then my eyes started stinging and tearing from all the toxins in the environment I’m now aware of. Thanks! Sara! I have a lot to do now.”—Lisa Kudrow “Sara’s passion and commitment to the environment have given me an awareness that I never had before about our planet. I learn from Sara every day and she makes me want to be a better person. See! you can teach an old dog new tricks.”—Sharon Osbourne Informationen zum Autor Sara Gilbert is creator, executive producer, and co-host of CBS’s Emmy-nominated The Talk . She first captured America’s heart in her role as Darlene Conner in the long-running hit series Roseanne, for which she received two Emmy nominations. Since then she has appeared in movies and regularly on a variety of television shows, including The Big Bang Theory, ER , and 24 . The vegan mother of two and a magna cum laude graduate of Yale, Gilbert has established herself in the Hollywood community and beyond as a trusted voice on family, health, parenting, and eco-conscious living. Klappentext Actress! producer! mother! and imperfect environmentalist! Gilbert understands how helping the environment can seem overwhelming. She shows how small changes here and there in everyday lives can make a "big" impact on the environment. chapter one clean eating and drinking Why don’t we pay more attention to who our farmers are? We would never be as careless choosing an auto mechanic or babysitter as we are about who grows our food. —Michael Pollan, journalist and environmentalist, The Botany of Desire We Are What We Eat What we eat affects who we are, not just physically but emotionally and spiritually. For me, clean eating and drinking is about starting from the inside out. It’s the environmental issue closest to my heart and the place to begin. I became a vegetarian because I’m strict and weird and like to control things. I was thirteen, so I felt good all the time anyway. Years later, when I became a vegan, I really felt it in my body. I immediately had more energy and watched an extra layer of fat just melt off. When I began having some stomach problems, I started seeing food as medicine and became macrobiotic—my stomach was suddenly fine, my skin got clearer, my energy became even throughout the day, and my overall mood improved. This isn’t to say I’m not moody, but?.?.?.?not as moody. And to me that’s worth eating all the berries and twigs I can find. Even the Water’s Not Safe? Cut to the Chase, Hippie: What’s the Least I Need to Know? Safe drinking water isn’t just something to worry about on your tropical vacation. U.S. tap water is ridden with arsenic, lead, and pharmaceutical drugs. In short: Get a filter. Intriguing?.?.?.?I Can Handle a Little More Tap water has been protected under the Safe Drinking Water Act since 1974, but experts warn that the water in our pipes increasingly doesn’t meet health-safety guidelines. My tap water contains a horrifying thirty pollutants—including illegal levels of by-products from disinfectants, and dangerous amounts of arsenic and chloroform. How do I know? I went to the Environmental Working Group’s website and typed my zip code into the “What’s in your water?” tool. You can, too. Here’s their website: http://www.ewg.org/tap?-water/?home. So grab the bottled water off the grocery-store shelf? Not so fast. Is that glass or plastic bottle going to wind up in a landfill? And just because it’s bottled doesn’t mean it’s chemical-free. If the water in your area is suspicious, stay hydrated by investing in a filter for your tap. Currently the two most popular types of filters are reverse osmosis and ionizing or alkaline filters. There are arguments in favor of both sides, b...

Product details

Authors	Sara Gilbert
Publisher	Ballantine

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	13.08.2013

EAN	9780345537584
ISBN	978-0-345-53758-4
No. of pages	224
Dimensions	186 mm x 230 mm x 13 mm
Subject	Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology

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