Dr. Sarah Ballantyne
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The same compounds that are giving those fruits and vegetables their distinctive colors are beneficial nutrients for us.
And we get the best coverage for health outcomes if we want to
get all of those 42 health outcomes to be improved and our risk to be turned down for all of those we want to be trying to get as many different colors as we can represented in our foods and they show um this this big study that was done a few years ago basically made an argument for eating the rainbow hitting all of those five different color families being
beneficial on top of just eating enough fruits and vegetables.
So ideally we would eat, studies are a bit mixed.
So there's some studies that make a really compelling argument for three servings of vegetables per day.
There's others that make a really compelling argument for five servings of vegetables per day.
I don't think this is settled science yet.
And I think there's room for interpretation on exactly how many servings of vegetables is like the best to eat for long-term health outcomes.
But however many we're aiming for, wherever we're at, maybe we're just at that trying to go from zero to one, mixing up the colors will be beneficial on top of working on getting the servings up.
Exactly.
And psychology studies actually back this up, that when we adopt a restrictive approach to dieting, meaning there's this list of foods that we're going to reduce or eliminate or obsessively measure, that increases food fixation and obsession, cravings, emotional eating patterns.
It can drive disordered eating and it increases the likelihood of developing an eating disorder.
Restrictive diets are how most fad diets are, or even weight loss diets, that's how most of them are structured.
Most of them are about the thing that you cut out.
And psychology studies show over and over again that they are not diets that people can stick to, that they increase the likelihood of weight regain cycles, which is the technical term for yo-yo dieting, and that they increase the likelihood of developing eating disorders.
And it's not what we don't eat that has anything to do with what the quality of our diet is or whether or not that diet is going to support health.
It's what we actually do eat.
Are the foods we're eating actually supplying the nutrients our bodies need?
That is what actually determines whether or not a diet is healthy.
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