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No matter what your health concerns – preventing cancer, heart disease, diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure, whatever – the bottom-line massage from every health organization (including the American Heart Association; the American Cancer Society; the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; and the USDA) is to eat more fruits and vegetarians.
Yet more than 90 percent of Americans fail to consume the recommended amount.
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Here are some tips to help you boost your intake of these carbohydrate-rich foods that not only fuel your muscles but also protect your good health:
- Whip together a fruit smoothie for breakfast: orange juice, banana, frozen berries
- To your egg (white) omelet, add diced pepper, tomato, mushrooms
- Add blueberries or sliced banana to pancakes; top with applesauce
- No fresh fruit for your cereal? Use canned peaches, raisins or frozen berries
- Put leftover dinner veggies into your lunchtime salad or soup
- Keep within easy reach grap-and-go snack, such as small boxes of raisins, trail mix dried fruit, frozen 100 percent juice bars, cherry tomatoes, baby carrots and celery sticks.
- Add shredded carrots to casseroles, chili, lasagna, meatloaf or soup
Fruits and Veggies