Hopefully by now you know that you should be getting 5-9 servings of fruits and veggies into your diet daily. That’s right, 5-9 per day, not per week. What is a serving size? How can you possibly fit all of that into a single day? It’s not as bad as you think. Each serving is only 1 cup or sometimes only half of a cup. How can you figure out which is which? Believe it or not, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has a great website that give you all of the details.
Visit: http://www.fruitsandveggiesmatter.gov/index.html and you will find everything you need to know about fruits and veggies. You can enter your age and gender on the home page to figure out how many servings you need. There are recipes (and they’re really easy to use), tips and even a veggie of the month.
My favorite page is the color wheel. It lists out fruits and veggies by their color, so you can pick and choose and combine whatever you want and make sure you’re getting a wide variety of colors and flavors into your every day food.
Have a look at the site and let me know what you think. Post your responses on our below.
Have a great week!
Next week, we have lots of Boot Camp additional fun events, including our 1-hour nutrition class (Wednesday at 7:30pm), supermarket shopping tour (Thursday, 7:30pm) and Anchorage Yoga (Friday, 6:15pm). More details on all of this on Monday.
To your health,
Ginny Grupp
www.AlaskaFit.com
“It’s not just about getting into shape,it’s about getting into life!”
P.S. Want to improve your nutrition plan? Sign up for our Nutrition KickStart plan and start changing your life today. Find out more at http://ww.AnchoragePersonalTrainer.com/nutrition/
