Watching Ironman

I'm spending an unhealthy day sitting on my butt at the computer and watching Ironman coverage. I did run 4 miles earlier today, though, in just under 44 minutes.

My training buddy Dave wisely decided to sit out the race today, since sadly his knee was still significantly damaged from his bike crash three weeks ago. No, of course the Ironman folks wouldn't allow him to transfer his registration to Ironman Lake Placid and allow his knee some additional healing time, so he's out his entire entry fee. He's spectating today in Coeur d'Alene and sending me updates on his Blackberry. My other training buddy Chuck is going strong on the course and will soon cross that finish line! Go Chuck go!

In other unrelated news, I just saw an ad - now Ziploc is making bags for steaming vegetables, like the ones veggies sometimes come in in the supermarket. Cool! I don't think they're available in stores yet, though. See http://www.ziplocsteamerbags.com

I'm in the majority

According to the CDC,

". . . approximately 32.6 percent of the U.S. adult population surveyed consumed fruit two or more times per day, and 27.2 percent ate vegetables three or more times per day . . . the newest guidelines advise that adults eat three to five servings of fruit and four to eight servings of vegetables every day."

Seven to thirteen servings of fruits and vegetables every single day? Like, over 4 servings every single meal? Not including potatoes or carrots?

I. don't. think. so.

Or even "two cups of fruit and 2 1/2 cups of vegetables per day", from the 2005 USDA guidelines?? That comes to 1.5 cups of fruit or vegetable every single meal.

I've been finding that for me, it's pretty darned difficult to maintain that level of intake unless I pay strict attention to it every single day, and take a trip to the grocery store to buy fresh produce nearly every day.

RealAge and magical foods debunked

I should probably mention, while I'm doing a little review here, that my eat-more-veggies plan for 2007 is pretty much a miserable stinking failure. Just so you all know. Mock me if you will. But maybe going from 0 to 1 per day right on up to 5 per day was too much a shock to my system.

BUT!

I've mentioned it before and I'll probably mention it again:

I love this blog.

I especially love a good debunking of pseudoscience and pop nutrition..

Here's just a snippet to whet your appetite:

"The large EPIC (European Prospective Investigation Into Cancer and Nutrition ) study of nutrition and cancer conducted in 8 countries among 285,526 women, ages 25-70, recently reported that after 1.5 million person-years there was no relationship between breast cancer and total or any specific fruit and vegetable consumption. Harvard School of Public Health researchers reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association the results of an analysis of 13 prospective studies of more than 725,000 men and women followed for 6 to 20 years which found no association between dietary fiber from fruits, vegetables and grains and risks of colorectal cancer."

Here's another good article from the NY Times, too. (Thanks for the link, Pem!)