not so much the same thing. and all fruits are not equal in good for, just as all veggies aren't. On the whole fruits have a bunch more sugar.

Well, sure. I don't tend to eat much fruit, and I haven't gotten scury yet.

someone get Jesse a nutrition book stat. On every get healthy food guide I've read, non-starch veggies can be eaten in unlimited quantities, but fruits are always limited to 2-4 servings a day.

Specifically the nutrients in greens are always stressed as importante.

Why can't fruit sub for veg? The sugar? Aren't they both basically vitamin delivery systems?

Leafy greens, my mother is yelling. But she doesn't know why, and I hope she's not startling the help.

Msbelle's right about the sugar. And just as different fruits deliver different nutrients, vegetables are working different stuff from fruit. Dietary fibre, iron, calcium, folic acid, and all that jazz.

Alpen:

It's extra pathetic that I know all that stuff and don't do it, isn't it? I've got no excuse but my taste buds. And lack of discipline.

Msbelle's right about the sugar. And just as different fruits deliver different nutrients, vegetables are working different stuff from fruit. Dietary fibre, iron, calcium, folic acid, and all that jazz.

Of course. I wasn't trying to say they are nutritionally identical, just that a balanced diet could be weighted more heavily with either and be OK. Depending on the details, of course.

GO DISCOVERY!

Fly, Big D. Fly.

I was surprised to find out no one wanted chcolate chip[ pancakes this morning.

good thing dh made a veggie frittat for this am. that is were veggies come from today

Sean must be talking about the shuttle launch. cool . even cooler is the fact that they did not keep DH down there just in case.

a balanced diet could be weighted more heavily with either and be OK

But in a different way from being weighted more heavily with meats or grains? I guess that's what I was harping on. They are both valuable, but not interchangeable--they just tend to get lumped together conversationally in ways that may percolate down to meal planning, but shouldn't at all.

My fruit consumption has been decent, and is now up to good (*much* less juice, and at least two pieces of fruit a day). My veggie consumption is pretty crap unless I'm eating off someone else's plate, or am at a shindig with a vegetable platter. And even then...I tend towards the fruits that call themselves veggies.

My mother wore her throat drying harping on this many years ago. I just...I just don't like them. And I have a tiny appetite, and have decided that calories are more important than getting many nutrients from their primary source.

Obviously I'm no nutritionist.