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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think that is a realistic recommendation. If you had a garden/farm, you wouldn’t have 25 diff fruits/vegetables ready to harvest within a given week.[/quote]

Well, yeah, it would actually be MORE unrealistic if you had a farm (only certain things are in season in a given climate), but if you had a farm, you'd be getting more exercise and there would be a bunch of other health benefits (or could be). If you have access to grocery stores and occasional restaurants, it's more realistic. I'm not sure why anyone is taking this as some sort of prescription from on high, by the way-- her recommendation generally is to have a varied diet-- the game she proposed to me was d/t my specific health concerns. [/quote]

Well it just seems like a very random/arbitrary recommendation that’s not based on anything.... And yes your original post makes it sound like a “prescription from on high” because this is how your mom, an MD, is telling you how to address a health problem, and now you’ve got a whole thread of people measuring their child’s diet based on this silly guideline your mom came up with.[/quote]

Seriously? The general recommendation to eat a variety 1) was not created by her and 2) is based on quite a lot of research. The "silly" number 25 was something concrete for ME to shoot for, which is explicit in the OP. And if people are reading this and getting anxious or feeling inadequate, that's on them, not me. It's just food ( :roll: ) for thought and less prescriptive than even "Strive for Five." Maybe it's because my mom is a doctor, and I know how many crappy ones there are, but I would absolutely never take the thoughts of one doctor as Gospel. But you do you.    [/quote]

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