Public Health Wales says a new study which encourages people to eat 10 portions of fruit and veg a day isn’t achievable.<\/p>\n
Judith John, a Consultant Dietitian for Public Health Wales, says “It’s good to eat more fruit and veg but it’s probably an unrealistic target for a lot of people. \u00a0If we changed our advice to 10 a day it would put a lot of people off.”<\/p>\n
Her comments come following a report by the Imperial College London which showed nearly 8 million premature deaths a year \u00a0could be prevented if they ate 10 portions a day. They say it will also reduce the risk of cancer by 13%, the risk of a stroke by 28% and the risk of heart disease by 24%.<\/p>\n
But Dr Zoe Harcombe an obesity researcher from Newport agrees with Public Health Wales. She says encouraging people to eat 10 portions of fruit and veg a day is a waste of time.<\/p>\n
Dr Harcombe says even the five a day campaign has failed to reduce obesity and it would be better to encourage people to eat “real food”. She says obesity has worsened since the introduction of 5 a day and in her experience, “people are trying to eat five-a-day in addition<\/em> to everything else they are eating, not instead of”<\/p>\n She says this has been a missed opportunity to\u00a0make a difference to our health and weight.<\/p>\n “The drive to eat five fruits and vegetables a day would have been far better directed (and still could be) towards eating more of the most nutritious foods each day. Meat, fish , milk, sunflower seeds and broccoli would be the optimal five-a-day,” she says.<\/p>\n Government guidelines recommend five portions of fruit and veg a day. However only one in 3 people manage to achieve this.A\u00a0portion of fruit or veg is 80g and is roughly equal to\u00a0a small banana, a pear or 3 tablespoons of peas.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Public Health Wales says a new study which encourages people to eat 10 portions of fruit and veg a day isn’t achievable. Judith John, a Consultant Dietitian for Public Health Wales, says “It’s good to eat more fruit and veg but it’s probably an unrealistic target for a lot of people. \u00a0If we changed our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":201,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[743,744],"tags":[1246,1270,1245,1271],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/201"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16323"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16458,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16323\/revisions\/16458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jomec.co.uk\/cjsnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}