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Friday, July 10th, 2015

Most Americans Still Don’t Eat Their Fruits & Veggies

Author:     Rachael Rettner
Source:     livescience
Publication Date:     July 09, 2015 01:00pm ET
 Link: Most Americans Still Don’t Eat Their Fruits & Veggies
Stephan:   Read this important wake-up call about fruits and vegetables and adjust your diet accordingly, if you can. But we must be honest: More and more people cannot afford to eat like this. Organic lemons where I live are $1 a lemon. On the island we have a very creative and effective social safety network concerned with seeing everyone gets enough to eat. Implemented by the women on the island it has made us a distant outlier to most communities. With 17 million children experiencing feed stress and hunger in the U.S., and elderly living on dog food telling someone to eat 2 cups of fruit for all too many is nothing but a taunting fantasy.

VegetablesDidn’t eat enough fruits and vegetables today? Join the club — 87 percent of Americans don’t meet recommendations for fruit consumption, and 91 percent don’t meet recommendations for vegetable consumption, according to a new U.S. report.

Researchers analyzed a 2013 survey of more than 373,000 American adults in all 50 states who answered questions about how much fruit and vegetables they eat. U.S. federal dietary guidelines recommend that people eat between 1.5 and 2 cups of fruit per day, and 2 to 3 cups of vegetables per day.

Overall, just 13 percent of people consumed enough fruit to meet the guidelines, and 9 percent ate enough vegetables, according to the report released today (July 9) from researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. [Map: Fruit & Vegetable Intake in All 50 States]

Maps show fruit and vegetable consumption.
A majority of the U.S. population isn’t eating the federally recommended amount of fruits and vegetables.
Credit: By Karl Tate, Infographics Artist

When the researchers looked at fruit […]

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2 Comments

  1. steve hovland on Friday, July 10, 2015 at 6:09 am

    If you go through the colon cancer risk calculator at the NIH you will learn that not eating fruits and vegetables is a major risk factor for developing caner.

  2. Rev. Dean on Friday, July 10, 2015 at 8:14 am

    In my opinion, vegetarianism could make us all more healthy, and may even save the planet, especially if everyone could grow their own food, or at least some of their own and sharing with others who may have varieties different from their own. That is how I survive on a low social security income, and stay healthy physically, despite the lack of resources.