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EP 1090B - Recipe for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life

What can you do to improve your health and at the same time improve the health of our home planet? Do you want to be a healthier and more sustainable consumer?

In her straightforward, easy-to-understand book, dietitian and environmentalist Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes outlines the actions we can all take. Many people feel overwhelmed by the scope of climate change and believe that only large, sweeping changes will make any difference. Yet the choices we make every day can have effects on climate change, the oceans, the land, and other species.

This book outlines the problems we are facing, and then presents ideas or 'recipes' to empower us, to help us all make a difference. Recipe For Survival provides the guidance that you can use right now to improve your health, your family's health, and the health of the environment simultaneously.

Dr. Dana Ellis Hunnes is a practicing dietitian, educator, and researcher who has dedicated herself to understanding the relationships between climate change, food choices, and food security and how they affect our health. At UCLA Medical Center, she works with hundreds of individuals every year who suffer from debilitating chronic diseases and guides them toward a healthier lifestyle.
EP 1090B - Recipe for Survival: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life
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Dana Ellis Hunnes, Ph.D., MPH, RD
Dana Ellis Hunnes, Ph.D., MPH, RD is an Assistant Professor with the Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA and is a Senior Dietitian at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center. She earned her BS in nutrition and human biology from Cornell University, her RD at Emory University, and her Masters of Public Health (MPH) and Ph.D. in climate change and food security from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. Dana has worked in the U.S. and overseas, including in Ethiopia and East Africa, researching issues of famine, climate-induced migration, and food insecurity.

Dana addresses the relationships among climate change, food choices, and food security in her classes and with the media. She has been interviewed by NBC Nightly News, WBAI radio, Spectrum 1 TV, and KTLA-TV and has written for the Huffington Post, One Green Planet, and Self magazine. She has been quoted in articles in the Associated Press, Live Science, Healthline, Women's Health, Well + Good, HuffPost, SelfHealthCosmopolitan, Men's Journal, Insider, the Los Angeles Times, and many other news and media outlets.

Her first book, RECIPE FOR SURVIVAL: What You Can Do to Live a Healthier and More Environmentally Friendly Life, will be published by Cambridge University Press in January 2022.

Dana lives in Los Angeles with her 7-year-old son, 17-year-old chocolate lab, and husband.