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Worried about an upcoming shortage of food and oil (and everything ELSE)? Being miserly won’t help.

Would the world be a better place if we could somehow curb our desire for material goods? Environmentalist Saleem Ali says “No.”

Take minerals: “The reality is, without minerals, we could not have had modern civilization,” he says, “That’s why we have ages named after them: Iron Age, Bronze Age. We simply could not have achieved those without minerals.”
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You may love to eat white mashed potatoes with your turkey, but sweet potatoes are better for you. Nutritionists tell us we need to eat brightly colored fruits and vegetables, even in space (and we all know how important green is)!
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What’s the secret of success of people who lose lots of weight and keep it off for many years, despite all the delicious Thanksgiving dinners they eat? (Anne Strieber has done this and you can too!) When you push away from the table and turn on the football, consider this: A new study suggests that the number of TVs in your home may play a major role in obesity.

Instead of watching TV, maybe you should go out to a movie instead. Researcher Suzanne Phelan says that when her group looked at the factors that cause people to become obese, “the home environment really came out as a stronger factor than we would have anticipated.”
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Eat turkey on Thursday! – Eating a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and mashed potatoes makes consumers less likely to buy on impulse, which might affect the outcome of their shopping on Black Friday, historically one of the busiest retail shopping days of the year.
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