People are Eating Less Fruits and Vegetables
Posted on 11. Sep, 2010 by jeff in Natural Weight Loss, Nuriche Healing, Products
A Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Healthy People 2010 initiative is sadly failing in its efforts to considerably bump up Americans daily intake of fruits and vegetables in order to fight off obesity and reduce other health problems associated with bad diets. Their goal is to have 75% of the population ages two plus consuming 2 or more servings of fruit and half eating 3 or more servings of vegetables.
Last year less than a third of all adults reported eating that much fruit, which was down somewhat from the year 2000, and a little more than a quarter of them consumed enough vegetables, same results as in 2000. Stats were taken from a national phone survey of hundreds of thousands of Americans which would indicate accurate numbers.
The cost of eating healthy may be the biggest barrier. Individuals with higher incomes reported higher consumption rates of fruits and vegetables. You can try to teach people the merits of eating healthy, but our food system, tens to price such salty, fatty and sugary foods less expensive than fresh, healthy protein, vitamin and mineral rich alternatives. If you want fresh fruit in the dead of winter, you’re going to pay a lot of money for them. Canned vegetables can be had fairly cheap, but beware they’re highly salted and not as nutritious.
If you live closer to where fresh produce is grown, you might be able to save some money. People from California ate the most fruit, there is a lot is grown there and the prices are definitely lower. The same goes for the state of Tennessee, where they ate more vegetables. Higher consumption of fruits and vegetables also goes with rising ages. Weight was the obvious one, as those people with a lower body mass index ate more than people who were overweight or obese. Women beat out men by considerable margins in consumption rates.
So what’s the answer? Get your 5 servings of Fruits and Vegetables in one 10 ounce scoop of Nuriche Live. Simple add water and drink all year long! LiVE and ReVIVE are the next best thing to consuming fresh fruits and vegetables.
Nuriche LiVE and ReVIVE are broad spectrum whole foods without any added synthetic or isolated ingredients. The Nuriche product line focuses on natural components in balance. The enzymes in Nuriche products are plant based enzymes which are found in the dried plant material, and they also add plant sourced enzymes to further support the body’s digestive system.
Vegetable Garden
Oct 8th, 2010
I am so glad I don’t eat all that processed food anymore. Having my own garden and feeding my family from it has been very healthy for us.