Glance: Dietary Guidelines recommend more fruits and veggies

Associated Press ^ | Jan 7, 2016 10:22 AM EST

[Olog-hai]

According to the government's new dietary guidelines, Americans need to cut sugar, salt and fat from their diets and eat more fruits and vegetables.

To do this, people should choose a variety of nutrient-dense foods - things with lots of nutrients but comparatively few calories - in all food groups. ...

[TexasCajun]

I prefer mine distilled. :)

[TexasFreeper2009]

total BS

I have known many people 90-100+ and not a one of them was a vegetarian, heck, most of them barely ate fruits and vegetables at all! and none of them exercised either!

If fruits, vegetables and exercise were the keys to living longer, nearly all 90+ people would be vegetarian athletes. And yet nothing could be further from the truth!

[GregoTX]

According to the governments new dietary guidelines, Americans need to cut sugar, salt and fat from their diets and eat more fruits and vegetables.

The new guidelines say more fruit more vegetables and less sugar? I wonder what it said before.

[Don Corleone]

Then only allow those things to be purchased with the EBT cards!

[redhead]

Go Here. Read.

[TexasFreeper2009]

It said the same thing.

Eat fruits and vegetables and less sugar.

But now the government wants to you eat even MORE fruits and vegetables and even less sugar.

No Thanks!

I don’t believe anything the government says about health!

Heck it is in the governments best interest for us all to die before we collect social security! why the heck would they tell us the truth about what might help us live longer!

Heck, even if it were true. Big deal.

I would rather live to 80 and have done what I want, ate what I wanted, ect.

Than live to 90 and had to eat leaves my whole life and spent every waking moment running or some such nonsense!

[fatnotlazy]

My Grandma lived to be 90. The only produce she used were apples for her strudel and potatoes and onions for potato pancakes. She ate everything fried, potato chips, used lard in her baking and drank 2 beers a day. She didn't “exercise” exactly, but she worked hard and it was her choice. Refused to buy an automatic washer and dryer. Scrubbed clothes on an old washboard and hung everything to dry. Her “vacuum cleaner” was an old rotary Bissel contraption that maybe picked up a few pieces of lint. Wouldn't use a mop. Scrubbed floors on her hands and knees.

With all of our modern conveniences we have gone soft. That's probably what's killing us. The old timers could burn up the fat just from daily living 24/7, while our activity might consist of an hour at the gym. They seemed to be almost immune to the diseases precipitated by excess fat, sugar, carbs and what not

[TexasFreeper2009]

Your personal experience mirrors my own nearly exactly.

The all worked hard going about their daily lives, but none exercised. There was no need! They got plenty of exercise just going about their daily business.

And none ate a diet that anyone would ever consider even remotely healthy.

[ConservativeWarrior]

“With all of our modern conveniences we have gone soft. That’s probably what’s killing us. The old timers could burn up the fat just from daily living 24/7, while our activity might consist of an hour at the gym. They seemed to be almost immune to the diseases precipitated by excess fat, sugar, carbs and what not”

Describes my neighbor exactly. Saw him getting into his car the other day, clad in his workout clothes. Just as the landscape crew was pulling up to take care of his lawn. I’d bet $20 his 16 year-old son was inside playing Xbox.

[Mrs. Don-o]

Lesson one: Fresh raw veggies (especially greens: lettuce, spinach, cilantro) (and especially "organic") are by far the most efficient ways to ingest E. coli!

Next Lesson: Listeria, Salmonella, Aflatoxin fun!

[fatnotlazy]

Unfortunately, you're right. But at least where I live, in winter most of our produce is imported. Produce from Chile is ok. But I won't buy anything from Mexico.