Eating your fruit and veges?

Whether you are losing weight or maintaining a healthy weight it is recommended you have two or more servings of fruit and three or more servings of veges each day.  It would appear many of us are not eating this much fruit and veges. 

The State Indicator Report on Fruit and Vegetables, 2009 reports that only 33% of adults eat sufficient fruit and 27% eat sufficient vegetables.  The report notes ways of getting us to eat more fruit and veges.  This includes getting us while we are still young through schools increasing student access to fruit and vegetables as well as teaching nutrition.

The report repeats the importance of fruit and vegetables in optimal child growth, maintaining a healthy weight and preventing diseases such as diabetes, heart disease and some cancers.

U.S. Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, September, 2009

While eating fruit and veges is healthier for you than eating processed food full of refined sugar it is possible to take this further and be selective in the fruit and vegetables you consume when losing weight.  To lose weight successfully focus on the fruit and vegetables with a lower glycemic load.  This is fully covered in my book “Enjoy Losing Weight”. 

So, for overall health and to achieve and maintain permanent weight loss include sufficient fruit and vegetables in your daily diet.

Eat well, Keith