"Eat your fruits and vegetables" is one
of the tried and true recommendations for a healthy diet -
and for good reason. Eating plenty of fruits and vegetables
can help you ward off heart disease and stroke, control
blood pressure and cholesterol, prevent some types of
cancer, avoid a painful intestinal ailment called
diverticulitis, and guard against cataract and macular
degeneration, two common causes of vision loss.
What does "plenty" mean? More than most Americans consume.
The latest dietary guidelines call for five to thirteen
servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
The largest and longest study to date, done as part of the
Harvard-based Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals
Follow-up Study, included almost 110,000 men and women whose
health and dietary habits were followed for 14 years. The
higher the average daily intake of fruits and vegetables,
the lower the chances of developing cardiovascular disease.
Increasing fruit and vegetable intake by as little as one
serving per day can have a real impact on heart disease
risk. According to these two Harvard studies, for every
extra serving of fruits and vegetables that participants
added to their diets per day, their risk of heart disease
dropped by 4 percent.
Fruits and vegetables are clearly an important part of a
good diet. Almost everyone can benefit from eating more of
them, but variety is as important as quantity. No single
fruit or vegetable provides all of the nutrients you need to
be healthy. The key lies in the variety of different fruits
and vegetables that you eat.
That’s why your favorite Wholefood Farmacy foods are made
from a wide variety of fruits and veggies! Fruitalicious,
Fruitalicious Plus, Veggielicious and Veggielicious Spice
offer a very delicious and very convenient way for you, your
family and your children to get plenty of fruits and veggies
every day.
As always, we are at your service,
The Wholefood Farmacy Team
