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Like Nine Out of Ten Americans, I Dont Eat Enough Fruit and Vegetables. Heres How I Added Some Accountability to My Meals. Like many millennial women who came of age in a culture of extreme thinness, I am deeply skeptical of “controlling” what I eat too closely, lest I be sucked into the maw of the diet industry. That doesn’t mean I haven’t made attempts at examining my meals. I downloaded Noom a couple of New Years ago, based on the promise that it would help me understand the psychology behind my snack and drink choices. I deleted the app after I realized that it was, at its core, an exercise in calorie counting. (Also, it was the height of the pandemic. The psychology behind my choices was “it’s the pandemic.”)
Recently, though, it dawned on me that there’s a very, very simple thing I wanted to correct about my diet: I am one of the roughly 9 out of 10 Americans, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control, who does not eat enough fruits and vegetables. Growing up, my household was a pretty healthy one, and so when I went to college, I had access to snacks and pizza like never before. The fallout continues to this day. Though I do not lack access to grocery stores or free time in which to prepare vegetables, I just don’t seem to eat that many plants (non-grain division).
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