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That's it.
That's a whole nutrition degree there, mostly plant foods.
I say that mostly that you don't have to be a vegetarian to be healthy.
You can eat incredibly healthy if you choose to have some dairy foods, if you choose to have some meat or some chicken or fish.
But if most of the foods on your plate, plant foods,
That is 80 to 90% of the battle.
Where the debate comes is that we've got all these health problems in a country like Australia, where 67% of us are carrying too much weight.
We've got diabetes, heart disease, and so on.
It's all because of the food pyramid and all of these evil carbohydrates and grains that are in them.
Now, first of all,
7% of Australians don't eat the recommended servings of vegetables each day.
Most of the grains we eat are highly processed.
A third of our calories each day comes from junk food.
No one eats according to what dietary guidelines and the food pyramid actually says.
So we have the recommendations and what people do are very, very different.
So I always sort of...
find it you know quite interesting people want to blame but dietary guidelines for health problems when very few people actually follow them and increasingly not many people actually read what the guidelines say and that's what all they say don't eat a lot of junk food eat mostly plant foods and that's you know that's for most of the population that's all you need to worry about as for what food you eat in there whatever knock knock yourself out whatever you like there's hundreds of different foods you can eat in that paradigm
Is that right?
So five servings of vegetables a day, only 7% of Australians, 7% eat five servings of vegetables per day.
And for fruit, which is only two servings a day, only half of people eat vegetables.