The frenzy in green issues is making a huge of different of our lives. It makes our society start to think green. Many big companies or organizations try to make contribute to our society. So, what can you do to make an effort to our earth and yourself? First, you can begin with your everyday diet and your family's as well. You can treat yourself and your family right by eating health and try to not cost wastes in our land. Here are some useful tips to make a change of our earth. Remember, even small counts.

1. Eat a variety of foods. Treat yourself right by providing good nutrition. You can eat a variety of foods to meet your nutritional requirements. Select rice, corn, wheat, soy, vegetables, fruits, and beans. Rice, corn, and wheat supply 60% of the calories and protein people derive from plants. Also, be smart to pick different color of food, you should choose different color to balance the nutrition. For example, you may choose five different colors food each day including red, yellow, black, green and white: red as red pepper, yellow as winter squash, black as black beans, green as broccoli, and white as mushroom. There are more selections you can choose from.

2. Purchase organically produced food. Why to choose organic certification foods? Because these products have been grown, processed and handle without synthetic pesticides, antibiotics, hormones, artificial ingredients, preservatives or irradiation. Also, foods labels certified organic means it do not contain genetically engineered ingredients. The reason why most organic food is little pricing because it means the farmer use biological diversity to rotating crops, protecting water sources and conserving the soil.

3. Try to eat smaller portions of animal products. Not only animal products such as meat and dairy are the major sources of fat, but also cause heart disease, diabetes and cancer. If you over eat meat, you might have overweight problem as long with other potential disease. Therefore, try to eat more vegetables, fruit and drink more water. Based on statistic, farmed fish may have hormones, antibiotics and organochlorine chemicals like DDT, and dioxin. Also, fish in contaminated waters many have high levels of PCBs, or mercury to endanger your health. Another research shows animal waste produces water and air pollution.

4. Buy less processed and packaged foods. The study shows highly processed food product may have little natural food and nutrition, instead, it may have high in fat, sugar or salt. Besides, it may contain genetically engineered soy additives like soy lecithin and bad for your health.