They don’t eat enough fruits and vegetables according to what the GOVERNMENT says. My tummy AND wallet says I’m doing just fine. Who the hell can afford 9 portions of fruits and vegies a day.
Eat meat! Steak, sausages, shrimp, lobster, salmon, rabbit, elk, deer, moose,...
Because they would rather stuff their fat, undisciplined faces with greasy food, fast food, and processed food with 237 "ingredients"
There are three categories for me.
[1] Fruits high in sugar I try to avoid but I also shoot to get enough citrus for C.
[2] Starchy and sugary root vegetables I try to limit to crunchy accents to salads.
[3] Leafy vegetables and those like asparagus, Brussel sprouts and broccoli I eat to my heart’s content.
Meat, eggs and cheese I really center the meal around but the trick is to keep that protein rich food to no bigger than a deck of cards.
To do this I need three meals and a snack or four meals. I can’t stay off the carbs without this minimum.
Carbs and straight sugars are for once a month.
I eat vegetables and fruits a lot but I get sick and tired of the constant barrage of food recommendations from know-best bureaucrats, junk scientists and scare merchants.
Cases of eosinophilic meningitis caused by the rat lungworm parasite have risen sharply in Hawaii over the past 5 years.
Most people we have asked do not know how they got it. It is mostly through ingestion of a slug or slug contaminated vegetables/fruits,
http://www.malamaopuna.org/ratlung/needtoknow.php
Why do they shy away from GMO produce? Maybe they feel reluctant to start glowing in the dark. They probably already have a night light.
They say “you are what you eat” and I would rather not be a fruit or a vegetable.