BlogHer - Goodbye 5 a Day, Hello More Matters! - Comments

Hah!

skeeterbess — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 21:42:11 -0500

Mine came out the same as Debra's. No way. Obviously it doesn't take my digestive issues into consideration, but even when healthy I never ate that much in a day. I'd turn into a whale.

skeet

Ridiculous!

debra roby — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:41:32 -0500

I went to the my pyramid site and put in my current information. I am a 54 female active 30-60 minutes a day. I need 2.5 cups of veggies and 2 cups of fruit.

For fun, I put my weight before my current diet and fitness obsession; decrease my activity level, increase my weight and I need 1.5 cups of fruit and 2.5 cups of veggies.

Glad I'm losing weight, I much prefer fruits to veggies and I get to eat more. However, if you less than healthy weight, they give you an interesting page telling you you're not healthy and giving you different pyramid choices.

How can a family menu planner work with variable numbers for each member of a family? And how do food budgets adjust to requirements to purchase these quantities of foods?

Debra
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That does seem pretty strange.

Zandria — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:59:13 -0500

Why make something more complicated, especially if a health writer/editor like yourself has to hunt for the information and still can't find satisfactory answers to her questions?

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Goodbye 5 a Day, Hello More Matters!

Denise — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 09:14:10 -0500

It's the end of an era, at least that's how it feels to me!

The good people at the Produce for Better Health Foundation have said goodbye to the "5 a Day the Color Way" and hello to "Fruits & Veggies More Matters". I don't know about you, but I'm going to miss the 5 a Day slogan - it was much catchier.

What exactly does "more matters" mean, anyway? It was much easier to determine whether or not we were eating enough fruits and vegetables when we could simply think "Oh 5 a day... did I eat 5 portions of fruits and vegetables?" Now, we think "More matters! More than what?"

If you check out their dietary guidelines section, they don't really clear that up. You have to move on over to the good old, I mean new, My Pyramid site to determine just how many servings of fruits and vegetables you need and once you get there... oy....

I'm 43 and not overweight. I get very little exercise. All of this means that I need 2 cups of vegetables and 1 1/2 cups of fruit everyday.

My 17 year old daughter who is not overweight and more active than I am needs 2 1/2 cups of vegetables and 2 cups of fruit!

My son is 19, underweight, and gets very little exercise. He needs 3 1/2 cups of vegetables and 2 cups of fruit a day.

It's all so complicated! 5 a day made sense to me. More matters, not so much.

How many cups of fruits and vegetables do you need? How many are you eating?

~~Denise
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