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Improve and protect your heart health and general wellness whilst helping to protect the planet from climate change at the same time. Seems impossible? You can do it by adopting the reduced meat or vegetarian, whole-grain, low-fat diets, containing plenty of vegetables and fruit, combined with moderate exercise programs, as they are described in this podcast series. The same diets significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thereby help our endangered planet.

Drawing on findings from leading health researchers as well as conversations with both chemical and organic farmers from coast to coast, Maria Rodale irrefutably outlines the unacceptably high cost of chemical farming on our health and our environment. She traces the genesis of chemical farming and the rise of the immense companies that profit from it, bringing to light the government's role in allowing such practices to flourish.