Americans Still Not Eating Enough Fruits And Vegetables

Playfuls.com | Mar 19, 2007

If you want to stay healthy and limit your potential for developing a host of chronic and acute disease conditions, increase your intake of vegetables and then fruits, in that order. As long as the bulk of your diet consists of these, you can still eat your favorite dishes with impunity, but make sure you are eating organic foods from reputable sources. The best advice is to find local sources for most of your foods and know your producers personally. Meet up with them at local farmer’s markets. Visit their farms and ranches if possible. If they have nothing to hide, they will be glad to give you a tour. Even better is to grow your own to the greatest extent possible.

The globalists want us to be either fat or anorexic, unhealthy, pathetic losers who can’t put up a fight. We cannot win against the New World Order unless we agressively pursue good nutrition, exercise and avoid pollution, poisonous foods and toxic drugs. We have to be physically strong to resist tyranny. That is my main point, but aside from that, life is just better in general when you have your health and you feel good physically. 

PW

“Eat your vegetables” has been heard at the dinner tables of America for a long time. Has the message gotten through? Since 1990 the Dietary Guidelines for Americans has recommended consuming at least  two servings of fruits and three servings of vegetables daily.

However, two studies published in the April issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine clearly show that Americans are not meeting the mark. This is a serious public health concern because consuming a diet high in fruits and vegetables is associated with decreased risk of obesity and certain chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes and some cancers.

Researchers from the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and the Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research in Baltimore analyzed NHANES data (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys) to determine trends over time for fruit and vegetable consumption among American adults. The answers are not encouraging. Despite campaigns and slogans, Americans have not increased their consumption, with 28% and 32% meeting USDA guidelines for fruits and vegetables, respectively, and less than 11% meeting the current USDA guidelines for both fruits and vegetables.

The study included 14,997 adults (¡Ý18 years) from 1988 to 1994 and 8,910 adults from 1999 to 2002 with complete demographic and dietary data. Approximately 62% did not consume any whole fruit servings and 25% of participants reported eating no daily vegetable servings. There was no improvement in Americans fruit consumption during this period and there was a small decrease in vegetable intake.

In the article, Tiffany Gary, PhD, states, “Low fruit and vegetable consumption with no indication of improvement between 1988 and 2002 as well as consumption disparities across ethnic, income, and educational groups should alarm public health officials and professionals.

With two thirds of the U.S. adult population overweight or obese, the implications of a diet low in fruits and vegetables are extensive¡­New strategies, in addition to the 5-A-Day Campaign, are necessary to help Americans make desirable behavioral changes to consume a healthy diet that includes a variety of fruits and vegetables.”