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The Ultimate Human Diet

Andrew Merle
4 min readJan 14, 2018

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What if the food we eat could not only nourish our bodies, but also reverse climate change and ultimately save the world?

Is it possible that this perfect human diet exists?

Josh Tickell — one of the leading experts in the fields of health, climate and alternative energy — says yes.

He details this optimal diet in his new book Kiss the Ground (which is soon to be a full-length documentary executive produced by Leonardo DiCaprio and narrated by Woody Harrelson).

Tickell says that the food we eat has the ability to improve our health while simultaneously regenerating the soil and helping to reverse global warming.

The diet primarily follows the guidelines set forth in the Harvard Healthy Eating Plate (the official dietary advice from Harvard doctors and medical professors), specifically:

Ensure at least 1/2 of your meal is vegetables and fruit

Aim for color and variety. Potatoes don’t count because of their impact on blood sugar. The average American currently only gets about 12% of his or her calories from from vegetables, and most of that is from…

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Andrew Merle
Andrew Merle

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