The Five Pillars of Food

Combining five perspectives on food, The Green Fork Diet reveals insightful and surprising truths about what we eat, its history, and how it affects our health, happiness, and the world we live in.

I. History

Understanding the past is an invaluable tool in recognizing how influential our dietary choices have become. The history of food is a remarkable tale that takes us on a captivating journey throughout the human saga. In recounting our ancestors’ quest for food, feast, and fortune, The Green Fork Diet provides an eye opening account into the development of humanity’s first known agrarian societies. Covering the rise and fall of empires and leading into present day, The Green Fork Diet culminates into a detailed look of our current global food system: adept to big business and brand name foods.

II. Health

Among affluent industrialized nations, instances of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, obesity, and osteoporosis, are becoming more prevalent as people continue to consume processed, unnatural, and artificially preserved foods. The Green Fork Diet serves to inform readers on the importance of eating fresh, natural, nutrient dense food for achieving optimal health. By utilizing progressive scientific and medical research, The Green Fork Diet reveals validating evidence in favor of earth grown, ecologically based foods for increased longevity, vitality, and wellbeing.

III. Ecology

With the advent of industrialized agriculture, global food production has become the primary contributing factor in water consumption, land use, deforestation, habitat destruction, and biodiversity loss around the world. In recognizing the inherent need to reduce humanity’s ecological footprint, The Green Fork Diet addresses the environmental consequences of our everyday food choices in order to emphasize the significance of eating sustainably. Through simple and effective nutritional solutions, The Green Fork Diet promotes ecologically grown foods for endorsing optimal health and a sustainable future.

IV. Economy

With national and global economies in an increasingly precarious state, The Green Fork Diet aims to acknowledge the profound economic impacts caused by unhealthy food choices on a societal level. Increased instances of dietary related diseases have translated into rising health care costs and medical expenditures that now burden national debts and private household incomes. These preventable illnesses are also affecting the workplace. Increases in employee sick days, disability leave, and medical coverage costs are leading to decreases in productivity while diminishing private sector gains. In assessing the relationship between healthy food choices, individual prosperity, and a vibrant economy, The Green Fork Diet discloses the importance of sustainable nutrition for improving economic security in the 21st century.

V. Humanity

A global society that is fair, free, and supportive of each other’s needs is in everyone’s best interest. Yet despite such common sense, in 2008 the World Health Organization of the United Nations claimed - for the first time in modern history - that the number of people overweight now exceeds the number of people starving. In exposing the unseen and unknown factors that lead to staggering inequality like world hunger, The Green Fork Diet altruistically reveals simple and healthy everyday food choices that support humanitarian causes around the globe. In uncovering the potential of our dietary choices for feeding the world twice over, The Green Fork Diet reveals what it means to eat for health, humanity, and global sustainability.