Week 6: ADD 9 fruit/Vegies to your life daily

WEEK 6: 1. ADD 9 fruit/Vegies to your life daily: You can truly eat all the fresh fruit and vegetable you can possibly stand and stay lean. It is Ideal to eat 5-9 servings of vegetables and fruit a day. Have you tried it? It is hard to get all that in! Why the fluctuation in 5-9, our bodies are all different shapes, sizes, and ages. Older or inactive women and smaller children need at least three servings of vegetables and two servings of fruit. Growing kids, teen girls, most men and active women would eat at least four servings of vegetables and three servings of fruit everyday. Teen boys and active men should eat at least five servings of vegetables and four servings of fruit.
A serving size of fruit or vegetable is equal to about one-half cup. Greens like spinach and lettuce have a serving size equal to one full cup. One serving of sliced fruit is equal to one-half cup; however a single piece of fruit, such as an apple or an orange counts as one serving…
Example: Fruits: one banana, six strawberries, two plums, fifteen grapes, one apple, one peach, one-half cup of orange or other fruit juice…
Vegetables: five broccoli florets, ten baby carrots, one tomato, 3/4 cup tomato juice, half of a baked sweet potato, one ear of corn, four slices of an onion…

I will sometime make a smoothie in the evening to get the rest of mine in a day and just drink it, for a snack.
Go to http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/ for a calculator to see how many is good for you.
It may take all summer to get these in your system; it’s worth the try.