Six Tips for Getting More Fruits and Veggies Into Your Day
In 2000, the Food and Drug Administration and National Institute for Health set a nationwide goal that aimed to have 75% of American adults consuming two or more fruit servings a day and 50% consuming three or more vegetable servings a day. The report released this month announced no state reached that goal.
CHOW DOWN
A new food documentary is out that you may want to see. It describes how, in 1981, a Washington food-lobbyist allegedly met with Louise Light and said " I have $60,000 in this attache case and I want to give it to you if you will leave the word cancer out of any mention in the Red Cross course."
Working with Dr. Caldwell Esselstyn of the Cleveland Clinic, director of one of the longest-running studies in the peer-reviewed scientific literature showing that a plant-based diet can reverse even late stage heart disease, this documentary proposes the actions of iindustry, government and even the medical establishment contribute to sky-high rates of heart disease, cancer and other preventable diseases. We need to not only take care of our kids, we need to take care of ourselves. Your kids need you to be there for them... and be in tip-top shape.
Take a look. See what you think.
Are we using the "WRONG" food pyramid?
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A lady at the Harvest Fair last weekend in Sacramento tried to tell us our food pyramid is wrong.
We dont think so.
Kids Growing Strong has chosen to use the pyramid promoted by the Harvard School of Public Health. We have spoken to many experts and believe it is a better alternative to the USDA's "My Pyramid" which, we believe, unintentionally has been influenced by business interests (whose actions ARE intentional.) For a larger image of the Healthy Eating Pyramid in .pdf format click here to visit the Harvard website.
Based on the latest science, and unaffected by businesses and organizations with a stake in its messages, we feel the Healthy Eating Pyramid, built by the faculty in the Department of Nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health, is a simple, trustworthy guide to choosing a healthy diet.
