Not enough Americans eating fruits and vegetables
Are you a fan of eating fruits and vegetables? Sure, preparing fruits and vegetables can be a little more cumbersome than popping something in the microwave, but the extra few minutes (or maybe 10) to prepare a healthy dose of fruits and vegetables is easily worth it. The thing is, 10 minutes is quite a bit to ask in this age of extreme business.The CDC said yesterday that fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends. This is not particularly surprising, but it is alarming to see it in print. The goal of the U.S. government is to see 75% of Americans to eating two servings of fruits and seeing 50% of American adults consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010.
If this current trend -- which has remained steady for about a decade -- continues, that goal won't be met. What do you do to get your suggested fruit and vegetable servings eaten every day?
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3-16-2007 @ 11:57AM
Alyssa said...
I make sure and have an orange and a banana or an apple (or whatever's fresh and ripe at the grocery) and lots of carrots, 'cause they're crunchy and give me something to munch when at my desk at work (this used to be chocolate's job...) and I rather like the veggie-fruit unsugared/uncornsyrupped green juices at the market. I'm not sure if I get "three servings of veggies" and "two servings of fruits" a day, but I try to eat what's tastey.
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3-16-2007 @ 12:39PM
mcewen said...
I cheat - I have my own version of the 'food pyramid' as even the new one is not sufficiently persuasive for my children. Since all the experts fiddle statistics to get their point across, I have no qualms in deceiving my own children, so our version explains that 5 fruits and 5 vegetables have to be consumed [compulsory] any thing else in any food group is optional. [I don't think anyone is listening around here though!]
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