157: Changing Our Food Habits To Restore The Planet with Glen Merzer

Healthy Lifestyle Solutions with Maya Acosta

What if you could help heal our planet simply by changing your eating habits? Today, Glen Merzer discusses the impact of animal agriculture on our climate and the countless environmental and health benefits of plant-based diets.

Key takeaways to listen for

• Reasons to become a vegetarian at a young age
• Greenhouse gas emission: Causes, sources, and global effects
• How to reduce greenhouse gases?
• Benefits of a plant-based diet
• Efficient ways to protect our planet
• The cultural implications of eating meat

Resources mentioned in this episode

• To get a bonus plant-based recipe, please send an email to [e-mail] and [e-mail]
• Food Is Climate by Glen Merzer | Audiobook and Paperback
• Own Your Health by Glen Merzer, Chef Aj, and Gary Tiedemann | Audiobook and Paperback

About Glen Merzer

Glen began his career in book-writing as co-author, with Howard Lyman, of Mad Cowboy (Scribner, 1998) and No More Bull! (Scribner, 2005). Glen is also co-author of The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss (2018) by Chef AJ; Unprocessed (2011) by Chef AJ; Food Over Medicine (BenBella Books, 2013) with Pam Popper; Better Than Vegan (BenBella Books, 2013) by Chef Del Sroufe; and The Plant Advantage by Benji Kurtz. The Secrets to Ultimate Weight Loss launched as a best-seller in the summer of 2018, spending over a week in the top ten best-selling books on Amazon. Alongside Eric Brent, Glen edited The HappyCow Cookbook (BenBella Books, 2014). In 2020, Glen wrote Own Your Health (The Book Publishing Company), to which Chef AJ contributed over 75 recipes. Glen grew up in Bellmore, N.Y., and attended New College of Florida in Sarasota.

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• Website: Glen Merzer

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