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<p style="font-size: 18pt; font-weight:bold; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/how-your-next-grocery-trip-could-save-the-earth/">How Your Next Grocery Trip Could Save the Earth</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif';">Posted April 22, 2008 at 03:00 PM by Caroline Shannon</p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">A day like today (it’s Earth Day, chicas!), makes it especially easy to recognize many of the things that we can all be doing to make our world a bit better—use reusable bags when grocery shopping, walk or ride your bike when possible, and cut back on electricity. Pretty easy, right? But what about the food that goes into your mouth? Well, it turns out that there are a few ways to make your grub more eco-friendly, too. Listen up because, according to NutritionData’s Chief Nutritionist Monica Reinagel, the adage, “You are what you eat” could not be more true when it comes to discussing our Earth: 1. Eat locally. Reinagel says the average American meal travels 1,500 miles to reach our plates, “guzzling fuel” and releasing CO2 emissions along the way.…<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/how-your-next-grocery-trip-could-save-the-earth/">(<a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/how-your-next-grocery-trip-could-save-the-earth/">Continued...</a>)<br clear="all" /><br> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'"><a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/how-your-next-grocery-trip-could-save-the-earth/">Read the full article...</a> | <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/comment/how-your-next-grocery-trip-could-save-the-earth/">Comment on this post</a></p> <p style="font-size: 10pt; font-weight:normal; font-family:arial, 'sans-serif'">Filed under: <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-fitness/">her-fitness</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-health/">her-health</a>, <a href="http://www.heractivelife.com/women/archive/category/her-nutrition/">her-nutrition</a><br /><br /> </P>