Five a day.

knird evol

They say that you're supposed to eat five portions of fruit or veg every day.
How do they know it's not six? Where's their evidence.

I submit that this is all a pack of lies and a campaign of misinformation.

Alter-Ego

Is it sh1te thread hour in AH or something?

im invisible

five a day? i can usually only manage three or four...

Ally Dick

I tried eating five portions of fruit and veg a day but I was almost turning into a vegetarian so I had to stop

Latchy

They ....who are these people ?

crotalus667

knird evol wrote: »

They say that you're supposed to eat five portions of fruit or veg every day.
How do they know it's not six? Where's their evidence.

I submit that this is all a pack of lies and a campaign of misinformation.

The 5 a day number is based on what the WHO think avg joe can atempt and manage , it is infact low

Spunge

fruit and veg is overrated.
just eat the odd orange to avoid scurvy

My name is URL

The point is obviously just to persuade people to eat more fresh fruit & veg. The '5' bit is merely a nice tidy tagline that can be attached to ads/packages.

Kevin Duffy

crotalus667 wrote: »

The 5 a day number is based on what the WHO think avg joe can atempt and manage , it is infact low

Indeed. Isn't the general recommendation actually 9 a day? The campaigning for 5 a day is to keep it achievable.

Latchy

Whatever about the human jungle ,it keeps the orangutans regular and the chimpanzees can count to more than 5 .

candy-gal1

So does that include fruit juice in your vodka?

xoxyx

Sure, that's two right there.

Vodka's a vegetable right?

Aoifey!

Surely cider counts as a fruit?

Naikon

Nonsense of the highest order. People have survived for thousands of years without '5 a day'. It's a marketing device, nothing more.

theteal

Aoifey! wrote: »

Surely cider counts as a fruit?

and ketchup is veg!

Cill Dara Abu

There were some onions in my taco chips lastnight!

strobe

Latchy wrote: »

They ....who are these people ?

The Swiss. :mad:

robman60

I remember hearing that it's actually 9-a-day, but 5-a-day sounds more achievable for people.

orourkeda

Alter-Ego wrote: »

Is it sh1te thread hour in AH or something?

Yeah. Its our five a day

Latchy

strobe wrote: »

The Swiss. :mad:

They should stick to making clocks , rolling cheese down the mountians and Yodleing

( or is it the Austrians who yodel)

orourkeda

candy-gal1 wrote: »

So does that include fruit juice in your vodka?

No vodka should be neat. Like nature intended

the groutch

it's all a ruse with the greengrocers paying off the government scientists to come up with this nonsense

efb

5 a week...

and potatoes(chips) don't count- pah!

Blatter

knird evol wrote: »

They say that you're supposed to eat five portions of fruit or veg every day.
How do they know it's not six? Where's their evidence.

I submit that this is all a pack of lies and a campaign of misinformation.

This just about sums up our government's dietary recommendations alright.

Ridiculous and corrupt.

Cill Dara Abu

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

There were some onions in my taco chips lastnight!

And there was a slice of lime in my captain morgans and coke.

efb

5 a day..
[mock the week]Is that how many A&E's the current FG/Lab Govt are closing...?[/mock the week]

miss no stars

I get where you're coming from OP and I'd love to know if someone could answer this.

If I don't eat much by way of fruit and veg, but do usually eat say 1.5 portions of veg with my dinner, usually have something with lunch (say, salad in my sandwiches or vegetable soup), don't eat any dairy but eat plenty of protein and get enough fibre (that heavy brown bread, not the sliced pan ****, spuds etc)...

Am I seriously gonna end up malnourished?

Like, I just don't buy it that I need any more.

I kinda have an inclination that this is up there with all the dairy that's recommended simply cos there's supply for which demand must created.

Also, are all fruit/veg equal? Aren't berries PACKED with nutrients? Does 100g of parsnip/turnip/apple = 100g blueberries???

the groutch

I defy anyone who can look at the picture below and still say they want to eat 5 a day

http://www.heatworld.com/images/97759_615x615_STD/2010/11/images/Gillian_McKeith_main.jpg

orourkeda

the groutch wrote: »

I defy anyone who can look at the picture below and still say they want to eat 5 a day

http://www.heatworld.com/images/97759_615x615_STD/2010/11/images/Gillian_McKeith_main.jpg

I would totally eat her

Luxie

Anyone know how much one portion entails?

Needler

Luxie wrote: »

Anyone know how much one portion entails?

bout a hand full

Teutorix

5 cans of cider? no problem!

Turpentine

Teutorix wrote: »

5 cans of cider? no problem!

Four cans of cider and a box of Jaffa Cakes.

Really sets you up for the day ahead.

theboss80

Just eat a fruit salad

/thread

artanevilla

Five raisins. Boxed off.

--LOS--

Ally Dick wrote: »

I tried eating five portions of fruit and veg a day but I was almost turning into a vegetarian so I had to stop

coz vegetarians strive to eat as many vegetables as possible ¬_¬

dazed+confused

Naikon wrote: »

Nonsense of the highest order. People have survived for thousands of years without '5 a day'. It's a marketing device, nothing more.

Actually people used to eat more fruit and vegetables in the "olden days" because before modern farming techniques were introduced meat was prohibitively expensive. Granted in Ireland they would have eaten less paypaya and melons but what they did eat was more likely to have been grown locally and therefore more nutritionally dense.

mconigol

dazed+confused wrote: »

Actually people used to eat more fruit and vegetables in the "olden days" because before modern farming techniques were introduced meat was prohibitively expensive. Granted in Ireland they would have eaten less paypaya and melons but what they did eat was more likely to have been grown locally and therefore more nutritionally dense.

True. We probably eat too much meat now if anything.