7 A Day - Really ?

In the future real food like fruit, veg, meat, grains will be a luxury and we'll all be feeding on Soylent, which may or may not be made from people.
 
Energize said:
Blending does not remove the skin, you eat what is blended including the skin. A smoothie has no more sugar than the fruit in it.
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True, but in smoothie form, your body processes and absorbs it all much quicker.

Eating whole fruit result in chunks, which take time for your stomach to break down, resulting in a more gradual release of energy.

Smoothies are the neat shot, to whole fruit's single+mixer. :p
 
I myself have been on a poor diet for a while, feel like crap a lot. So I have decided to change, it may take a while to make it to 7 portions a day, I will try 5 for now. :P

But I have been having some veg, frozen veg, which isn't as good as fresh veg. I will be needing to change that as well, within a reasonable budget of course as fresh veg can be expensive for someone on min wage which is why I've been on the frozen variant for so long.
 
whether or not its an april fools, it is still down to personal choice, 7 veg a day can only benefit you more in the long run. okay I will admit it is a significant lifestyle change for some of you pizza bingers out there but you don't have to listen. It's a free country :P
 
I already eat 7 a day with ease, sometimes more.

What with the vegetables with lunch and dinner, and I usually have 2-3 bits of fruit throughout the day. I fail to see the difficulty unless you live on ready meals and frozen foods.

Most English people have appalling diets, start cooking some proper meals.
 
porushinobu said:
whether or not its an april fools, it is still down to personal choice, 7 veg a day can only benefit you more in the long run. okay I will admit it is a significant lifestyle change for some of you pizza bingers out there but you don't have to listen. It's a free country :P
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And here's me thinking that they were going to start force feeding fruit and veg refuseniks.
 
Arcane said:
In Australia the guidelines are 5 vegetables and 2 pieces of fruit which sounds about right to me.
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You can completely omit fruits in a healthy lifestyle, you can get the same nutrion from vegetables, not to mention if you intend to lose weight, you really shouldn't eat a lot of fruit.
 
I honestly believe that in 20 or so years we will look back at our diet in shock. We eat far too much processed food, far too much meat, far too much gluten and everything is cooked until it has nothing of any worth left in it. I would never go vegan, or vegetarian for that matter but theres no doubt that when we remove meat from our diets our weight issues and cholesterol levels fall, and when we cut dairy from our diets our thyroids begin to function again.

I remember watching some nutritionist pleading with people to heed his vitamin C cancer research about 5 years ago, of course the drug companies weren't interested because you can't patent a vitamin supplement. Now it seems that its becoming fairly common knowledge that vitamin C administered via IV rather than orally actively destroys cancer cells. Perhaps then we ask ourselves if cutting ourselves open and radiotherapy and electric shock treatments really are the best way to keep ourselves healthy.

Stop listening to this 5-a-day crap dictating what counts and what doesn't. Part of the reason you can only count a juice as 1 serving is because it lacks fibre, but fibre can be obtained from a variety of sources. I made a pint of vegetable juice this morning which contained kale, spinach, celery, cucumber, carrots and ginger, and I've done the same thing most mornings for the last year or so. All I can say is my skin is clear, I feel less lethargic with tonnes more energy, I never get ill and I just feel more awake.
 
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