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Caterina Lindman

Eating to be Kinder to the Earth and to Your Body

For a decade now I have been trying to reduce my carbon footprint. What I learned is that it is possible to walk more simply on the earth through a diet that is focused on minimally processed plant foods. I also learned something that seems to have been a secret. The key to human health is eating fruits, vegetables, beans, nuts, seeds and whole grains because of the thousands of phytonutrients they provide that are essential to good living. Most amazing are the studies showing how plant-based eating improves body weight, cholesterol levels, blood sugar, digestion, and well-being.

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Is a Whole-Food, Plant-based Diet Expensive?

No, in fact you may find that your grocery bill goes down as you eat more whole, plant-based foods. One reason your grocery bill may go down is that you will be buying much fewer processed foods. Processed foods are generally more expensive than whole foods.

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Jayber Crow

If the mark of a good book is how long one spends thinking about it, then Jayber Crow must be an excellent book. The novel is written as an autobiography of Jayber Crow. Port William is a small town in Kentucky and Jayber Crow is its barber from 1937 to 1969. The twentieth century sees a lot of changes, and we live through them as we follow Jayber’s life stow.

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The Integrated Circle of Care is a fluid and collaborative approach followed by workers from different agencies weaving through St. John’s Kitchen. Within this approach, staff members from each agency are aware of their specific personal roles. However, the high level of collaboration between workers means that people can approach any worker, without knowing their agency association or specific role, and still receive support – either that worker will support the person directly, or they will introduce the person to another worker who can support the person more appropriately.

This approach makes relationships more natural and support more accessible. Workers from different agencies are easily approachable, meaning that people build relationships with multiple workers. Having relationships with different workers is important to a person’s support – it makes support from a trusted source easy to find, and means that people have a choice of worker to approach in any given situation.

In order to maintain a circle of care around a person, workers from different agencies ask for consent from the person for information to be shared between workers. Continuous communication between workers helps to ensure that people do not fall into gaps between services, and also that services are not duplicated.