{"id":27063,"date":"2017-05-31T16:48:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T14:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/afrocentric\/five-fruit-veg-a-day\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T15:54:09","slug":"five-fruit-veg-a-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/five-fruit-veg-a-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Fruit &#038; Veg a Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling\" style=\"--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_1 1_1 fusion-one-full fusion-column-first fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-margin-bottom:0px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\"><p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14061 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/01\/52v-205x300.jpg\" alt=\"52v\" width=\"205\" height=\"300\" \/>This has been a nutritional recommendation for many years now and most people have heard of it. The truth though, is that less than half of us actually manage it on a regular basis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">For clarity: the recommendation is to eat 5 fruit and veg servings (1-2 fruit, and 3-4 veg) each day, where\u00a0a serving or portion \u00a0is considered a handful-size (e.g. one apple, a portion of steamed vegetables, 6 or so strawberries, etc.). <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">It is important not to have too much fruit because fruit is high in sugar so the usual limit is two portions a day (sometimes less for diabetics). Fresh, uncooked, or very lightly-cooked vegetables are best, with frozen the next best, canned and other forms of preserving are &#8220;ok&#8221; but not ideal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">A good approach is to look for colour: the more colours you eat the more variety of healthy vitamins, minerals, and other goodies (antioxidants and the like), you will get. Try to eat as many colours as possible.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">The benefits of eating more fruit and veg include stronger immunity, improved bowel function (you&#8217;ll be more regular), reduced risk of certain cancers and heart disease, better blood sugar and weight control, and more. <\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #333333;\">Five fruit &amp; veg a day: STILL one of the cornerstones to healthy living.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":26239,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition-general"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-25 20:07:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27063"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27474,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27063\/revisions\/27474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workcarewellness.co.za\/healthwise\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}