Recipe for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life

by Dana Ellis Hunnes

Overview

What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer? In this straightforward, easy-to-understand and entertaining book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species. This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781108832199
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	01/27/2022
Pages:	346
Sales rank:	1,054,122
Product dimensions:	6.26(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Dana Ellis Hunnes is an Adjunct Assistant Professor with the Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and a Senior Dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She earned her BS in nutrition and human biology from Cornell University, and her Masters of Public Health (MPH) and PhD from the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA. At UCLA, Dana teaches courses on nutrition, chronic disease, and the environment. Her research examines the relationships among climate change, food choices, and food security. She also looks at how these relationships affect our health, as well as the health of the planet and its oceans. She is frequently cited in popular media: she has been interviewed by NBC Nightly News, WBAI radio, Spectrum 1 TV. She has written guest articles for the Huffington Post and Self Magazine, and she has been quoted by the Associated Press, Live Science, Healthline, Consumer Reports, Women's Health Magazine, Well + Good, HuffPost, Self Magazine, Health magazine, Cosmopolitan, Men's Journal, Insider, the Los Angeles Times, and other news and media outlets.

Table of Contents

Part I. 1. Agriculture is a Major Driver of Climate Change (and Disease); 2. Politics and Dietary Guidelines, Two Major Problems; 3. Overfishing: There is No Such Thing as Sustainable Fish; 4. Plastic, It's What's for Dinner; 5. Environmental Exploitation; 6. Species Exploitation for Entertainment; 7. The Positives – Examples of the 'Good' Being Done Around the World; Part II: 8. Protecting Earth – One Recipe at a Time – An Introduction; 9. Epilogue: Final Thoughts and Key Takeaways; Appendix: Recipes You Can Use; References; Index.

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2021

Hunnes, a professor at UCLA’s Fielding School of Public Health, makes a convincing case for a greener diet in her comprehensive debut. She bemoans diets heavy in meat and dairy, for example, as they “contribute significantly to environmental degradation and climate change,” and can cause diabetes, elevated blood pressure, and high cholesterol. She criticizes aquaculture, too, urging readers to ditch fish and lamenting society’s reliance on plastic (when consumed by sea life, it can wind up harming human health). To best counter climate change, she advocates for a diet that consists of more vegetables, organic produce, and less waste. A list of 21 “recipes,” or lifestyle principals, rounds things out—readers are encouraged to buy grains in bulk, compost, ride a bike or use public transit instead of driving, and shop locally. The advice is sound enough, though those familiar with Earth-friendly living aren’t likely to find anything they haven’t seen before (one of her tips is to plant trees). Still, it’s a thorough introduction, and there’s plenty for newbies to sink their teeth into. (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

‘… a thorough introduction, and there’s plenty for newbies to sink their teeth into.’ Publisher's Weekly

‘An action-inspiring guide to transforming our personal habits so that each of us can become a powerful change agent for a brighter, greener future.’ Josh Tickell, author and director of Kiss the Ground

‘… this brilliantly written book could become a classic. I emphatically recommend that it be required reading for any educational group or public service program which studies the environment. It is the ticket to our future. It is without parallel! Dana Ellis Hunnes presents an abundance of science-based evidence that should encourage us to think deeply about the multiple ways we humans degrade our planetary home. No reader can come away without feeling a sense of awe and urgency to do whatever we can to save our home, both individually and collectively … we can make it happen entirely within a democratic, free-market society. We simply need the collective will to do so. Dr. Hunnes provides a rich collection of ideas on how to make this happen and how to do it now! … It is well-nigh time for us to truly sense the future of our children and our grandchildren.’ T. Colin Campbell, Cornell University, author of The China Study, Whole, and The Future of Nutrition: An Insider's Look at the Science, Why We Keep Getting It Wrong and How to Start Getting It Right

‘Dana Ellis Hunnes’s fact-packed and accessible Recipe for Survival delivers on its promise to empower us in our daily lives right now. In the book’s potent first half, Dana lays out the latest science documenting today’s ecological and public health crises. In the second half, she shines a light on sources of hope, giving us the tools we need to make changes to our diets, our habits, and quite possibly the future of our planet.’ Aaron Saul Gross, Founder, Farm Forward; Professor, University of San Diego; author of The Question of the Animal and Religion

‘Each of us has the power and the potential to change the world for the better. We can all make a difference when we harness our passion to the virtues of courage and imagination. Dana Ellis Hunnes understands the power of one, and the need to focus our energies in the present in order to define what the future will be. Recipe for Survival provides both guidance and answers and she has the courage to say what needs to be said.’ Captain Paul Watson, Founder of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society

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