ONE SIMPLE IDEA
Those Five Servings of Fruits and Vegetables
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
Nutritional experts recommend that you eat a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. But, how many times have you hear or read this?
In your lifetime, countless times, to be sure!
Here’s what to do to take action.
Use your fist.
Let’s face it, most nutritional information is boring and it’s hard to remember all those details.
Here’s a way to make things easy - one simple idea is all you need.
Be like Einstein.
It has been said that Albert Einstein did not bother to remember anthing he could not find in a book or elsewhere. Apparently, mundane detail was not his thing. Similarly, in this instance, use the image of your fist to remember this important broad nutritional recommendation we all hear, but might not be ready or willing to carry out.
Wait, that’s two simple ideas; it’s getting complicated already: be like Einstein and use your fist.
Which one is it?
Try to remember these guidelines (this is where things get complicated):
Consider eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
What is a serving?
A half cup of cooked or one cup of raw vegetables.
A medium sized piece of fruit, like an apple or an orange.
A half cup of canned or frozen fruit.
A quarter cup of dried fruit, like raisins.
A three quarter cup of juice, or six ounces.
Add fruits and vegetables to every meal.
Eat a cantaloupe for breakfast.
Don’t forget to eat one veggie for lunch and two for dinner. If you can’t take your vegetables plain, consume them as soups.
If you have a can of soup, toss in one half cup of peas.
Add vegetables to your spaghetti sauce.
Sorry, that slice of blueberry pie does not count…
Enough! Here’s our ONE SIMPLE IDEA.
Use your fist and eat five times that of any fruit or vegetable a day. Half cup, one cup, three quarters cup, frozen, cooked or canned - forget it.
If you strive to eat five fist-fuls of anything colorful or green everyday, you’ll be doing better than the 70% of Americans who survive on coffee, pastries, processed foods and TV dinners.
Use your fist and eat five times that amount of fuits and vegetables per day and you’ll be just fine. This is your one simple idea; Einstein would certainly approve.
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
Those Five Servings of Fruits and Vegetables
By Mark Isaac Thyss
Garden of Healing®
Nutritional experts recommend that you eat a minimum of five servings of fruits and vegetables every day. But, how many times have you hear or read this?
In your lifetime, countless times, to be sure!
Here’s what to do to take action.
Use your fist.
Let’s face it, most nutritional information is boring and it’s hard to remember all those details.
Here’s a way to make things easy - one simple idea is all you need.
Be like Einstein.
It has been said that Albert Einstein did not bother to remember anthing he could not find in a book or elsewhere. Apparently, mundane detail was not his thing. Similarly, in this instance, use the image of your fist to remember this important broad nutritional recommendation we all hear, but might not be ready or willing to carry out.
Wait, that’s two simple ideas; it’s getting complicated already: be like Einstein and use your fist.
Which one is it?
Try to remember these guidelines (this is where things get complicated):
Consider eating five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
What is a serving?
A half cup of cooked or one cup of raw vegetables.
A medium sized piece of fruit, like an apple or an orange.
A half cup of canned or frozen fruit.
A quarter cup of dried fruit, like raisins.
A three quarter cup of juice, or six ounces.
Add fruits and vegetables to every meal.
Eat a cantaloupe for breakfast.
Don’t forget to eat one veggie for lunch and two for dinner. If you can’t take your vegetables plain, consume them as soups.
If you have a can of soup, toss in one half cup of peas.
Add vegetables to your spaghetti sauce.
Sorry, that slice of blueberry pie does not count…
Enough! Here’s our ONE SIMPLE IDEA.
Use your fist and eat five times that of any fruit or vegetable a day. Half cup, one cup, three quarters cup, frozen, cooked or canned - forget it.
If you strive to eat five fist-fuls of anything colorful or green everyday, you’ll be doing better than the 70% of Americans who survive on coffee, pastries, processed foods and TV dinners.
Use your fist and eat five times that amount of fuits and vegetables per day and you’ll be just fine. This is your one simple idea; Einstein would certainly approve.
© 1996-2009 Mark Isaac Thyss/Garden of Healing®. All rights reserved.
For more articles about natural health and healing, please visit:
http://www.thegardenofhealing.com/
