Sentences with phrase «vegetable consumption tends»

Vegetable consumption tends to increase as individuals age, but fruit consumption is highest among the very young and oldest individuals in the population.

As children get older, their vegetable consumption tends to decrease, with the lowest consumption found in teenagers.

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Southerners, long noted for their extensive gardens and consumption of fruits and vegetables, commonly cooked their vegetables for a long time in water, a practice that tended to leach out vitamins.

Based on what I'd read in Satter's books and elsewhere, all the elements likely to lead to eventual acceptance of vegetables were in place: we weren't forcing the issue, my son saw enthusiastic vegetable consumption modeled by the rest of us every night, and year after year in the school garden he carefully tended the cucumber or carrot plant (something which farm - to - table groups assure us will create a desire to eat the harvest).

Through participation, consumers tended to increase their consumption of fruit and vegetables, and improve their cooking skills and knowledge about food.

By contrast, fruit and vegetable intake tended to fall as soda consumption rose.

Vegetarian diets are characterized by greater consumption of fruits and vegetables containing innumerable phytochemicals, dietary fiber, and antioxidants than omnivores, in addition to just restricting their consumption of animal sources of food, which tend to be fattier, and then can relax that sphincter and aggravate reflux.

Not only do people tend to consume too few probiotic - rich foods — yogurt, kefir, raw cultured vegetables — but many common lifestyle habits destroy our vital intestinal bacterial ecosystem, such as the consumption of sugars and refined foods, use of oral antibiotics or ingesting them second - hand through animal products, and the intake of pesticides and other chemicals found in our foods and water supply.

Trials that advised persons to increase fruit and vegetable consumption and also to decrease fat intake, again without giving advice to lose weight, tended to show weight maintenance or net weight loss (see Table 4 from Rolls et al., 2004).