John
07-17-02, 01:45 PM
Fruits and Vegetables: Eating Your Way to 5 a Day
The National Cancer Institute recommends that you eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. This article addresses some of the most common excuses for not following those guidelines and shows you how to overcome them.
Are you taking the 5 A Day challenge? You may be if you find yourself:
snacking on raw vegetables instead of potato chips
adding fruit to your cereal at breakfast
using the salad bar when you go out for lunch or to the grocery store
loading up on juice instead of a usual coffee, tea or soda
The challenge, offered by the National Cancer Institute -- a branch of the National Institutes of Health -- is to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and these are some ways consumers are rising to the occasion.
Read full article:
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1680.51087
The National Cancer Institute recommends that you eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day. This article addresses some of the most common excuses for not following those guidelines and shows you how to overcome them.
Are you taking the 5 A Day challenge? You may be if you find yourself:
snacking on raw vegetables instead of potato chips
adding fruit to your cereal at breakfast
using the salad bar when you go out for lunch or to the grocery store
loading up on juice instead of a usual coffee, tea or soda
The challenge, offered by the National Cancer Institute -- a branch of the National Institutes of Health -- is to eat at least five servings of fruits and vegetables a day, and these are some ways consumers are rising to the occasion.
Read full article:
http://content.health.msn.com/content/article/1680.51087