{"id":6947,"date":"2010-09-27T15:09:56","date_gmt":"2010-09-27T20:09:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=6947"},"modified":"2011-01-04T16:37:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-04T21:37:32","slug":"from-joan-salge-blake-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/09\/27\/from-joan-salge-blake-19\/","title":{"rendered":"From Joan Salge Blake:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left\"><em><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6949\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/09\/pbapples.jpg\" alt=\"pbapples\" width=\"196\" height=\"200\" \/>According from the latest <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/\"><em>CDC report<\/em><\/a><em>, we are not spending enough time shopping in the produce aisle, as over 75% of Americans are not eating the minimum recommended 4.5 cups of fruits and vegetables daily. This dietary shortfall may partially explain why over 65% of Americans are overweight.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Snacking on low calorie, high fiber, fruits and vegetables daily can help reduce your weight as Mother Nature\u2019s finest will \u201cfill you up before they fill you out\u201d. In other words, you\u2019ll likely get full on produce before you have a chance to overeat. In contrast, higher calorie, less filling snacks such as chips, crackers, and bagels are so easy to overeat that they can quickly fill you out in the wrong places.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If you are falling short of a quota of 4.5 cups fruits and veggies daily, make produce your only snack of choice and the best choice to trim your waist.\u00a0 <\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/salge-blake.blogspot.com\/\">Here are 5 easy fruit and veggie snack ideas<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According from the latest CDC report, we are not spending enough time shopping in the produce aisle, as over 75% of Americans are not eating the minimum recommended 4.5 cups of fruits and vegetables daily. This dietary shortfall may partially explain why over 65% of Americans are overweight. Snacking on low calorie, high fiber, fruits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":609,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[256,1313,3847,2193,2214,1538,1528,759,2444,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/609"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6947"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7521,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6947\/revisions\/7521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}