Knowledge Base > Deb Kennedy, PhD - Culinary Medicine: A Focus on Vegetables
Deb Kennedy, PhD - Culinary Medicine: A Focus on Vegetables
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Thursday, August 01, 2024 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Dr. Deb for this engaging session where she takes vegetables from the clinic to your plate. She delves into the heart of culinary medicine, focusing on the vital role vegetables… Read More.
Question:
Are you suggesting 6 vegetables per day, separate from all the fruits you might eat?
— Marsha Seidelman
Answer:
So Marsha, yes there, it's um, it's five, about five vegetables a day and then about two to three fruit. So when you're really looking at plant-based foods, um, and you look at actually like something like the Mediterranean diet, there are seven to 10 fruits and vegetables in that diet. So there's the five a day, which was three vegetables, two fruit. Um, what science is really showing is the more that you can consume, the better off that you'll be.
