ATLANTA - Fewer than a third of American adults eat the amount of fruits and vegetables the government recommends, a trend that's remained steady for more than a decade, health officials said Thursday. That's "well below" the government's goal of getting 75 percent of Americans to eat two servings of fruits and having half of the population consume three servings of vegetables each day by 2010, said Dr. Larry Cohen of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The diet survey, part of a huge federal health survey of every state, is based on responses from 305,000 adults in 2005. It indicates the country is only about halfway toward meeting its healthy eating goal three years from now
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It is amazing to me, that in the same week, we read in the news that Americans are not eating enough fruits and veges, AND, that by the year 2020, we are expected to have a shortage of oncologists for the one in nineteen people suffering from cancer.
My 11 year old put these together quickly. My dear child, who is well aware of the research that shows that increasing dietary intake from one to two servings, up to five to nine servings of fruits and vegetables per day halves the risk of cancer.
Perhaps, as the bible says, we need to listen to the little children. This, as he tells me is a "no-brainer mom"!
Lynne Eldridge M.D.
Author, "Avoiding Cancer One Day At A Time"
http://www.avoidcancernow.com
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