{"id":463,"date":"2007-04-03T23:57:54","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T23:57:54","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-07-04T12:21:43","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T16:21:43","slug":"one-hundred-mile-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.allergy-details.com\/health-t\/one-hundred-mile-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"The One Hundred Mile Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I just heard about a new book, called the The 100-Mile Diet: a Year of Local Eating<\/a>\"\" on the CBC Radio program As It Happens<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Alisa Smith<\/a> and J.B. MacKinnon<\/a> spend a whole year eating only food<\/a> which grew and was prepared within a 100 mile radius of their home.<\/p>\n

This sounds hard enough to begin with, but they made some interesting discoveries along the way, finding the project more difficult than they thought in the process.<\/p>\n

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For example, they found that locally caught crabs<\/a> where sent to China for processing! Since the food had travelled more than 100 miles between source and plate, they couldn’t eat it.<\/p>\n

Deciding to catch their own salmon<\/a> in a local river, they discovered that the whole river had been destroyed by a train derailment that released caustic soda into the water. This put the magnitude of what some might consider a minor disaster into perspective.<\/p>\n

Their experiment forced them to eat very healthy<\/a> food. It was also a showcase for making the environment<\/a> more healthy. I am sure that eating this way would reduce the incidnets of allergies<\/a>, both because of the healthy food, and because it reduces the pollutants released into the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The new book seems to be titled The 100-Mile Diet: a Year of Local Eating<\/em> in Canada, and Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally<\/a> in the USA.<\/p>\n

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