Americans Eating More Vegetables
Eureka! Some good news about the health of Americans. The website of the magazine Cooking Light offers these numbers:
The new USDA guidelines recommend we eat between five and 13 servings of fruit and vegetables a day, and we're starting to hear the message. The average American consumed roughly 332 pounds of fresh produce in 2004, up from 287 pounds in 1990. Plus, with the growth of America's farmers' markets, the introduction of Consumer Supported Agriculture, where community members buy produce from local farmers each month, and home delivery from many supermarkets, opportunities for Americans to have fresh produce abound.
The article also references the work of Dr. Frank Hu.
