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Comments on: Do Fruits and Vegetables Really Help Prevent Disease? http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/2010/03/07/do-fruits-and-vegetables-really-help-prevent-disease/ Ruminations on Weight Loss, Health, and Longevity Via the Mediterranean Diet Fri, 18 May 2012 08:56:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1.3 By: abalone http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/2010/03/07/do-fruits-and-vegetables-really-help-prevent-disease/#comment-18954 abalone Mon, 08 Mar 2010 00:32:29 +0000 http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/2010/03/07/do-fruits-and-vegetables-really-help-prevent-disease/#comment-18954 "I still don’t know why 'fruits and vegetables' are joined at the hip. " Perhaps because so many items we think of a vegetables are actually fruits. It's easier to join them than to deal with the incorrect popular notion that tomatoes, peppers, avocados, and eggplants are vegetables. Usually we think of the savory plants as vegetables and the sweet ones as fruits but that's not the biological distinction. “I still don’t know why ‘fruits and vegetables’ are joined at the hip. ”

Perhaps because so many items we think of a vegetables are actually fruits. It’s easier to join them than to deal with the incorrect popular notion that tomatoes, peppers, avocados, and eggplants are vegetables. Usually we think of the savory plants as vegetables and the sweet ones as fruits but that’s not the biological distinction.

]]> By: Steve Parker, M.D. http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/2010/03/07/do-fruits-and-vegetables-really-help-prevent-disease/#comment-18971 Steve Parker, M.D. Mon, 08 Mar 2010 23:53:45 +0000 http://advancedmediterraneandiet.com/blog/2010/03/07/do-fruits-and-vegetables-really-help-prevent-disease/#comment-18971 Abalone, thanks for weighing in. I guess sometimes things need to be "dumbed down" for general consumption. "Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day" is easier to remember than "Eat three vegetables and two fruits." -Steve Abalone, thanks for weighing in.

I guess sometimes things need to be “dumbed down” for general consumption. “Eat five servings of fruits and vegetables a day” is easier to remember than “Eat three vegetables and two fruits.”

-Steve

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