Relationship between yours and planet urth's health
Sep 11, 2024
Uvika Chaturvedi
Table Of Contents
Table Of Contents
The more we research about improving the cardio-metabolic health of the people on this planet, the more we realize the uncanny correlation between the health of the people on the planet and the planet itself.
Highlights
Discover the surprising link between your health and Earth's well-being.
Learn how food, sleep, and activity impact both you and the planet.
Understand your carbon footprint's main contributors.
Explore the Planetary Health Plate for better personal and environmental health.
See how a planet-friendly diet can significantly reduce mortality risks.
Improve your sleep while reducing energy consumption.
Adopt simple, active lifestyle changes that benefit both you and Earth.
Realize that caring for yourself often means caring for our planet too.
The three pillars of your lifestyle – food, sleep, and activity – play a significant role in changing the future of your cardio-metabolic health and planet’s health. Before we talk about how you are changing the future of your and the urth’s health, we want you to remember some statistics.
Close to the 2/3rds of the CO2 emission are because of:
Electricity: 27%
Growing things, including plants and animals: 19%
Transportation, including planes, trucks, and cargo ships: 16%
Temperature regulation, meaning heating, cooling, and refrigeration: 7%
The good news is that you could play your role by reducing your carbon footprint by improving your cardio-metabolic health and reducing the risk of developing Type II Diabetes by tackling your prediabetes and insulin resistance today!
Not asking you to quit meat or that charcuterie board. Just limit it?
If you are not new in this space, you would know that increasing your fiber intake helps you with insulin resistance. An advice that is supported by the majority of the books we have read to build trst!
“Changing how we eat can help slow climate change, and fortunately what’s healthiest for the planet is also best for us,” said Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
The Planetary Health Plate
The EAT-Lancet Commission – consisting of 37 leading scientists from 16 countries on a goal to reach a scientific consensus by defining targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production – created the planetary health plate that would improve both human and planet health. The plate included fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and other plant-based proteins while reducing (~NOT eliminating) meat and dairy to small portions. Below is an image of what a planetary health plate looks like.
A planetary health plate. (Source: EAT, Summary Report of the EAT-Lancet Commission)
The Planetary Health Plate and The Study Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
A substantially larger and much longer study, with repeated assessments of diet over more than three decades, concluded that top 10% of people who followed the EAT Lancet planetary diet were 30% less like to die prematurely from any cause than those in the bottom 10%.
“In addition, those who most closely followed the planetary diet had a 28% lower risk of neurodegenerative mortality, a 14% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a 10% lower risk of dying from cancer and a 47% lower risk of dying from a respiratory disease, which applied to nonsmokers as well. For every major cause of death we looked at, there was a lower risk in people with better adherence to the planetary health diet”, Willett added.
Why we trst this plate?
For starters, it does support the research that fiber consumption is extremely important for people who have insulin resistance, Prediabetes, or Type II Diabetes and are trying to manage their TIR (time in range) or Glucose Spikes. And then we love our cheese, haha! This plate is more easy to incorporate into our lifestyle than going all vegan! Additionally a lot of vegan or vegetarian diets/meal plans are protein deficient. This Planetary Health Plate is not only supported by smart scientists, but also has a good amount of protein (in addition to fiber) helping you improve insulin and leptin resistance.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes the man and urth healthy!
The easiest (and the most convenient) way to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your cardio-metabolic health - sleep better! In order to sleep better, we ask you to remove all the blue light, including all your tech gadgets and screens, couple hours before your bedtime! Limiting light and tech exposure at night would not only improve the quality of your sleep, but also save on the electricity bill, eventually leading to reduction in your carbon footprint!
The other low hanging fruit for your sleep, health, and urth’s health? Spending time outdoors in sunlight. Even Steve Jobs would trst us since he thinks sunlight is one of the world’s six best doctors. While the benefits of exposure to sunlight on health are numerous but to name a few: deeper sleep, better bone health, regulates your immune system, blood pressure, and blood sugar. And again, staying outdoors is a BOGO deal, you not only improve your cardio-metabolic health but also reduce your carbon footprint by limiting your electricity usage and time spent in air conditioning (responsible for 7% of the CO2 emissions).
Stay active and thrive, urth will automatically revive!
While our rhyming capabilities are questionable, our advice on moving more and staying active is very effective to improve the planet’s health (and obviously yours!). Here are some small switches will go a long way in reducing your carbon footprint, while improving your insulin resistance:
Cycle or walk to work: If your home to office commute allows, take out that dusty bike from your garage and take it for a spin. Reducing the daily use of your automobile would count a big time for your health and planet’s
Elevate your health by skipping the elevators: Skip the escalators and elevators. Not only your heart will thank you but also the urth will give you a special mention in her gratitude journal!
Say no to the food-delivery apps: If you are thinking of uber eats or doordash for dinner tonight, think again? Instead go walk to the restaurant and get a take out. If time permits, dine in, and walk back home. The walk after the meal would do wonders for your metabolism and glucose.
Actually run for those errands: Instead of using amazon for your grocery delivery, go to your farmers market and lift those seasonal veggies out! Packaging, shipping, transportation operations are very CO2 emissions heavy!
Conclusion
The planet urth gives us so much, but something that is totally forgotten by us is that it gives you cues on how to fix your lifestyle to lead a healthy and happy life. If you are mindful and willing to listen to your planet and body, the problem of your planet’s health and your cardio-metabolic health does not need to be solved separately.
References
The more we research about improving the cardio-metabolic health of the people on this planet, the more we realize the uncanny correlation between the health of the people on the planet and the planet itself.
Highlights
Discover the surprising link between your health and Earth's well-being.
Learn how food, sleep, and activity impact both you and the planet.
Understand your carbon footprint's main contributors.
Explore the Planetary Health Plate for better personal and environmental health.
See how a planet-friendly diet can significantly reduce mortality risks.
Improve your sleep while reducing energy consumption.
Adopt simple, active lifestyle changes that benefit both you and Earth.
Realize that caring for yourself often means caring for our planet too.
The three pillars of your lifestyle – food, sleep, and activity – play a significant role in changing the future of your cardio-metabolic health and planet’s health. Before we talk about how you are changing the future of your and the urth’s health, we want you to remember some statistics.
Close to the 2/3rds of the CO2 emission are because of:
Electricity: 27%
Growing things, including plants and animals: 19%
Transportation, including planes, trucks, and cargo ships: 16%
Temperature regulation, meaning heating, cooling, and refrigeration: 7%
The good news is that you could play your role by reducing your carbon footprint by improving your cardio-metabolic health and reducing the risk of developing Type II Diabetes by tackling your prediabetes and insulin resistance today!
Not asking you to quit meat or that charcuterie board. Just limit it?
If you are not new in this space, you would know that increasing your fiber intake helps you with insulin resistance. An advice that is supported by the majority of the books we have read to build trst!
“Changing how we eat can help slow climate change, and fortunately what’s healthiest for the planet is also best for us,” said Walter Willett, professor of epidemiology and nutrition at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health in Boston.
The Planetary Health Plate
The EAT-Lancet Commission – consisting of 37 leading scientists from 16 countries on a goal to reach a scientific consensus by defining targets for healthy diets and sustainable food production – created the planetary health plate that would improve both human and planet health. The plate included fruits and vegetables, whole grains, legumes and other plant-based proteins while reducing (~NOT eliminating) meat and dairy to small portions. Below is an image of what a planetary health plate looks like.
A planetary health plate. (Source: EAT, Summary Report of the EAT-Lancet Commission)
The Planetary Health Plate and The Study Published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
A substantially larger and much longer study, with repeated assessments of diet over more than three decades, concluded that top 10% of people who followed the EAT Lancet planetary diet were 30% less like to die prematurely from any cause than those in the bottom 10%.
“In addition, those who most closely followed the planetary diet had a 28% lower risk of neurodegenerative mortality, a 14% lower risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, a 10% lower risk of dying from cancer and a 47% lower risk of dying from a respiratory disease, which applied to nonsmokers as well. For every major cause of death we looked at, there was a lower risk in people with better adherence to the planetary health diet”, Willett added.
Why we trst this plate?
For starters, it does support the research that fiber consumption is extremely important for people who have insulin resistance, Prediabetes, or Type II Diabetes and are trying to manage their TIR (time in range) or Glucose Spikes. And then we love our cheese, haha! This plate is more easy to incorporate into our lifestyle than going all vegan! Additionally a lot of vegan or vegetarian diets/meal plans are protein deficient. This Planetary Health Plate is not only supported by smart scientists, but also has a good amount of protein (in addition to fiber) helping you improve insulin and leptin resistance.
Early to bed, early to rise, makes the man and urth healthy!
The easiest (and the most convenient) way to reduce your carbon footprint and improve your cardio-metabolic health - sleep better! In order to sleep better, we ask you to remove all the blue light, including all your tech gadgets and screens, couple hours before your bedtime! Limiting light and tech exposure at night would not only improve the quality of your sleep, but also save on the electricity bill, eventually leading to reduction in your carbon footprint!
The other low hanging fruit for your sleep, health, and urth’s health? Spending time outdoors in sunlight. Even Steve Jobs would trst us since he thinks sunlight is one of the world’s six best doctors. While the benefits of exposure to sunlight on health are numerous but to name a few: deeper sleep, better bone health, regulates your immune system, blood pressure, and blood sugar. And again, staying outdoors is a BOGO deal, you not only improve your cardio-metabolic health but also reduce your carbon footprint by limiting your electricity usage and time spent in air conditioning (responsible for 7% of the CO2 emissions).
Stay active and thrive, urth will automatically revive!
While our rhyming capabilities are questionable, our advice on moving more and staying active is very effective to improve the planet’s health (and obviously yours!). Here are some small switches will go a long way in reducing your carbon footprint, while improving your insulin resistance:
Cycle or walk to work: If your home to office commute allows, take out that dusty bike from your garage and take it for a spin. Reducing the daily use of your automobile would count a big time for your health and planet’s
Elevate your health by skipping the elevators: Skip the escalators and elevators. Not only your heart will thank you but also the urth will give you a special mention in her gratitude journal!
Say no to the food-delivery apps: If you are thinking of uber eats or doordash for dinner tonight, think again? Instead go walk to the restaurant and get a take out. If time permits, dine in, and walk back home. The walk after the meal would do wonders for your metabolism and glucose.
Actually run for those errands: Instead of using amazon for your grocery delivery, go to your farmers market and lift those seasonal veggies out! Packaging, shipping, transportation operations are very CO2 emissions heavy!
Conclusion
The planet urth gives us so much, but something that is totally forgotten by us is that it gives you cues on how to fix your lifestyle to lead a healthy and happy life. If you are mindful and willing to listen to your planet and body, the problem of your planet’s health and your cardio-metabolic health does not need to be solved separately.
References
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