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Eat Your Peas! Americans Not Eating Enough Vegetables, New Report Says

It's all because you didn't eat your vegetables as a kid. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says Americans still don't eat enough vegetables, and they're consuming a little less fruit than they were a decade ago. The government study said in 2009, 32.5 percent of adults in the United States consumed two or more servings of fruit or juice in day -- compared to 34.4 percent who had that much in 2000, the Associated Press reported Thursday. Vegetable consumption is stagnant. About 26 percent ate veggies three or more times a day -- the same as in 2000, according to a large ...

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