Rebecca SterlingCEO, Sterling Health and Wellness, Inc. andMTM Compounding Pharmacy

Clean Green Eating: Healthy Choices

“Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy

food.”- Hippocrates

300,000 to 800,000deaths preventedby proper nutrition

Pesticidesthe largest class of

toxic chemicalsin existence

Hypoxic = no oxygen = no life

What is “organic?”

No toxic chemicals

Natural pest control

Crop rotation

30% more Carbon in organic soil

4.7 million acresOrganic farmland in U.S., 2008

24 billion poundsAtmospheric carbon captured

25% more nutritionorganic

CSA: Community Supported Agriculture

Photo courtesy Greene Street Market

buyorganic

DirtyDozen

Environmental Working Group

• Grains are an essential source of nutrition

• They provide vitamins, energy giving carbohydrates, proteins, and valuable fiber

• 25-35 grams of fiber

Buying organic cuts pesticide exposurefor youyour familyand your community.

meat

You are also what your food eats.

You are what you eat.

10xMore

Omega-3s

5xReduction in

Antibiotic overload in 1 generation

Free Range

80% Antibiotics sold in

U.S. go to farm animals.

That’s

28.8 million

pounds every year.

The average American eats

67 poundsof beef per year.

100Fewer calories per 6 ounce serving than

grain fed beef.Grass Fed

2-4xMore

Omega-3s

Switching fromgrain to grass-fedfor one year cuts

16,642 calories.

11xmore fossil fuel

to make 1 pound of animal product

than 1 pound of plant.

8,700 gallons1 pound of beef

If 1,000 Americans chose to eat1 meatless meal per week,

we would conserve

70,000pounds of grains

40 milliongallons of water

1,000in 1800.

500,000today.

American bison:

Nutrition density =Micronutrients

Calories

SUPERFOODS

Can we eat to starve cancer?

Clean green foods for your health.

“We are what we repeatedly do.

Excellence then is

not an act but a habit.”-Aristotle

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