Brendan Brazier is a former Ironman triathlete and creator of VEGA, an award-winning whole food product line who believes that foods with high nutritional content are both the healthiest foods and those that do the last amount of damage to the environment. How do they do that? As plants they use land efficiently, require little of our dwindling water supply, and cause a minimal amount of pollution. According to Brazier the amount and quality of nutrition we consume has a great impact on sleep deprivation, fatigue, mental fog, irritability, weight gain and caffeine cravings. These afflictions also signal that our stress level is beyond a healthy range.
Brazier presents his "Five Thrive Guiding Principles" which include go for high net-grain foods, choose alkaline-forming foods, and avoid common allergies. He concludes: for the average American, switching to a plant-based diet would prevent more COs from being released into the atmosphere than by eliminating driving altogether. And just to prove how amazing and tantalizing this plant-based diet could be, Brazier has put together (with some other top chefs) 200 Recipes for Peak Health.
