Advocates of the green lifestyle encourage eating organic foods as much as possible. Organic foods are grown or raised without chemicals or extra hormones; eating these natural foods helps you gain energy because you're not poisoning your body with chemicals or other unnatural elements. Thus, green eating is important for wellness.
However, there are many hidden benefits in going green with natural eating as well.
* Support of your local economy. A large part of green eating involves buying foods from local farmers as much as possible. Many cities have a farmer's market where you can buy fresh, organic vegetables for lower prices than you can get processed vegetables for in your supermarket. So by going green, you put money in local farmers' pockets and save money on food purchases.
* Save energy. Most supermarket food is imported from elsewhere in the world. This means that it has to be transported by air or ship. Once it reaches the United States, it's loaded onto trucks and driven to supermarkets. All this transportation has costs for the environment as well as for consumers – extra carbon emissions and greenhouse gases are released into the environment as a result of extra driving. In addition, buying green products saves on packaging, much of which is not biodegradable.
* Get more nutrients. Organic foods have more nutrients than processed food and are therefore better for your health. For example, organic milk contains more Omega-3 acids than processed milk.
* Promote organic farming. The more organic food you purchase, the more profit organic farmers make. This allows these farmers to stay in business. If organic farming becomes more profitable than making processed foods, businesses will offer more organic foods and organic farming will become the norm.
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