Eating fruit and vegetables

The fast food is popular all over the world, especially in the USA. When I was first came to America, the restaurants like McDonald, KFC, Danny’s, subway and burger king were developed mostly. Now, I am studying in America, I can also witness how people like the fast food not only in the restaurant but also in the dinning hall. However, the fast food is also bad for our bodies. So, we should eat some vegetables and fruit to keep eating balance every day.

The fruit and vegetable area occupy about 1/6 space in dinning hall; there are more than 20 kinds of them offered there. The reason why the fruit and vegetable area were treated so important is the scientist pointed out that fruit and vegetables can protect against heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses. As we all know, the fruit and vegetables have many colors, such as, blue/purple, green, white, yellow/orange, and red. A test about fruit and vegetables showed that the phytochemicals and antioxidants in fruit and vegetables are the main factors to protect themselves also give them their colors. Otherwise, “complete the color spectrum every day and not only will you transform your plate into “a box of crayolas” but also you will receive the perfect cocktail of phytochemicals, vitamins, minerals, and fibre.” (Jones)

What’s more, our body needs several kinds of trace element. Eating several kinds of fruit and vegetables is the most easier and comfortable way to get the supplement. The UK Food Standards Agency site (www.foodstandards.gov.uk) make a good spread of eating fruit and vegetables which highlights the importance of variety—that simply eating five times your usual daily portion of broccoli doesn't count. The frequently asked questions section encouragingly points out that eating healthily can be greatly easy because things like olives, fruit juice, fruit jelly, baked beans, and raisins all count towards the daily quota (although unfortunately potatoes don't). (Jones)

Moreover, I got the information which means that eating fruit and vegetables can regularly prevent smokers from developing the disease of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). The Southampton researchers made a survey about 150 elder with smoking history who had COPD; there are 116 people who has no COPD but have smoking history. And then the researchers compared the result in two groups with body mass index (BMI), Smokers who ate more than two kinds of fruits and vegetables a day were approximately ½ to develop the disease as the smokers who ate less (Anonymous).

Perhaps it is so difficult to encourage children to eat fruit and vegetables because they do not like the green and fibrous when they were young; it is like an instinct everyone have.  There is a survey in rural China which indicated that the risks of asthma and wheeze in relation to fresh vegetable. With all residents (n = 38109) in three townships in three cities, there are only 218 cases of doctor diagnosed asthma were in 16460 children aged ≤ 14 years (prevalence 1.32%) and 290 in those aged 15-84 years (1.34% prevalence). Overall, 31.5% (160/508) of those with asthma had a history of allergy (Chen, Ruoling, Zhi Hu, and Anthony Seaton). The result pointed that the risk of asthmatic symptoms develops with low fresh vegetable consumption in young Chinese people.

Personally, I prefer eating fruit and vegetables in the morning because it is good for my mental health about vitamins and it can also decrease the depression in the morning. Otherwise, I have some experience about eating fruit. Such as, if you get an astriction, you can eat a banana. If you have a sore throat, you can eat a pear, celery. If you get inflamed, you can eat balsam pear, watermelon or grape, and so on. So, keep eating fruit and vegetables, it is good for our health.

Work Cited

Jones, Giselle. "Eating Fruit and Vegetables." BMJ : British Medical Journal 326.7394 (2003): 888-. Print.

Chen, Ruoling, Zhi Hu, and Anthony Seaton. "Eating More Vegetables might Explain Reduced Asthma Symptoms." BMJ (Clinical research ed.) 328.7452 (2004): 1380-. Print.

Anonymous. "Eating Fruit and Vegetables can Protect Against COPD." Nursing Standard 17.1 (2002): 10. Print.