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Conscious Consumption
What holds true for the soil — that you must give it more
than you take away — also holds true for nations, institutions,
marriage, friendship, education, in short for human culture
as a whole.
— Robert Pogue HarrisonO
ur health usually fl ourishes when our thoughts, feelings, and
beliefs are in alignment with our life choices and when our
actions are grounded in integrity and are consistent with our ide-
als and convictions. As we move into the twenty - fi rst century and
become increasingly aware of how our cultural unconsciousness
and overconsumption have greatly endangered our health and our
environment, we have also become empowered to make better,
more conscious, life - sustaining choices and decisions. The power
of this truth became crystal clear to me, my family, and everyone
at the Rice Diet Program during the last couple of years when we