This has to be an April Fool, doesn’t it?
Eating seven or more portions of fruit and vegetables a day is healthier than the five currently recommended and would prolong lives, researchers say.
A study of 65,226 men and women indicated the more fruit and vegetables people ate, the less likely they were to die – at any age.
“Seven a day” cut death risk by 42%, “five a day” by 29%, it indicated.
Given that fructose is supposed to be a poison according the government’s pet fake charity. Mind you, these days, being governed by fools it is difficult to tell.
Er … no it’s refined SUCROSE that (really is) bad for you.
OTOH, even with an allotment, I’d be hard-put to eat 7 portions a day & what’s more, if we all did that, given the fibre/vegetable content of all that food, do we think the sewerage systems could cope with all that … err … “fibrous download” ??
At the dentist this morning I noticed a leaflet advising patients to avoid acidic foods. Guess I’ll have to get my 7 a day without apples, oranges, grapefruit, satsuma, lemons, limes….
Cretins, the lot of them.
No problem.
7 bags of chips, please.
Is this an April Fool? It seems perfectly plausible to me. “Experts come out with this crap on a regular basis and the media report it uncritically. If it is an AF joke it isn’t a very good one.
These people are so far over the parody event horizon, it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell.
I must say I was swithering at first wondering whether or not it was an April Fool story. I was amused to see on the BBC some ‘expert’ babbling about public ‘confusion’ and worry that people would get the ‘wrong message’. He obviously thought that the whole population was hanging on his words and that their fate hung between ‘was it five portions or seven’? And that word ‘should’ was liberally used – not ‘we advise’ but ‘we all should’ or ‘people should’. When I hear ‘should’ in this kind of context I paraphrase Elizabeth I to myself: ‘little man, little, man ‘should’ is not a word to use to citizens’. But what exactly is a ‘portion’?
I easily get my 5/7/10/245 a day.
I’ll eat anything such as garlic, onions, chillies, and anything else that you might find in a vindaloo. I also add turmeric and cayenne to dishes, then I’ll then wash them down with apple juice (cider), which presumably also adds to my Herbivore Safety Profile.
My practice nurse was a bit nonplussed when every one of my tests came back as completely normal. Well, apart from the BMI, which was tending towards a high level. Luckily, she seems to be one of the more intelligent ones who can work out that if you’re lifting weights, and practicing Capoiera (I have to practice because I’m hopeless), then I might JUST have some muscle weight, which would make a nonsense of the BMI score.
I’m tempted to be totally evil like Leg-Iron, but unfortunately have a soft spot for my nurse, Michelle. I’d like to go completely over to the dark side, but I don’t like talking into a black bucket.