Tuesday Tidbits: Count with me, now

So my Tuesday Tidbits have kind of gotten away from me. They were supposed to be just short little blurbs – facts and tips that I came across that I found interesting but am too lazy to research. But I have a tendency to not know when to shut up (see? I’m doing it again). So anyway, here’s a 5-4-3-2-1 countdown to healthier eating:

5 half-cup servings of fruits and vegetables per day (green, leafy vegetables should be a full cup serving)

4 servings of nuts, legumes or seeds per week

3 daily servings of low-fat cheese, milk or yogurt**

2 (3 ounce) servings of fatty fish per week

1 multi-vitamin per day

**I was reading an interesting theory the other day on dairy requirements – the author felt dairy was totally not necessary, but the government likes to say it is because if they said you don’t really need it, people would stop buying so much of it and it would hurt the economy in a big way. I think I’ll have to give that particular conspiracy theory some thought.