Be a healthy trendsetter

Where you’re from, tri-tip is considered a health food, and potatoes are the only vegetable most people care to taste.

Despite that local enthusiasm for meat and potatoes, you've got tons of opportunities to be green. With the great outdoors as your gym and fresh, locally grown produce everywhere you look, you're in health heaven.

Here's how to live in a small town, healthy bitch style:

Small Town Tips

1. Start shopping at your local farmers market. You live in the country, ergo, you live near at least a few farmers. Support them and support your health by buying local and seasonal produce at farmers market. Even Whole Foods can’t do better than that.
2. Explore the boring shelves at the supermarket. We’re talking about the bottom shelves where the bags of brown rice and dried beans live. Make friends with these ingredients. They are available almost everywhere, so no excuses.
3. Exercise outdoors. Here’s a little secret – many city girls who slog through their treadmill workouts everyday envy your proximity to the great outdoors. Take advantage of your surroundings! Your workouts will probably be much more enjoyable than an interminable gym sesh.
4. Embrace home remedies. Join your local quilting club and grill the grannies about their best home remedies. You’ll be surprised by how much you can accomplish with simple, naturally eco-friendly ingredients like vinegar – stuff that your town’s general store has been selling for decades.
5. Log on. However remote your hometown is, we’re betting you’ve got some kind of Internet access. If you get fed up with our first four tips, there is a plethora of eco, vegan, macrobiotic, and organic ingredients, food, clothes, exercise equipment, videos, books, and accessories available online.

Do you live in a small town? Leave a comment below to share your tips for being a healthy bitch where you live.

- Megan Blanchard