Guests avoid cream sauces but love cream-based soups and bisques,''said Glen Werley, owner of Le Due in Lower Macungie Township and a Lehigh Valley Restaurant Association board member. But the Lehigh Valley's eating patterns aren't all that different from the way other Americans are eating. Canadian officials recommend nine fruit and vegetable servings per day. We say we aim for five servings, but we're not even getting that many. It's more like three or 3.5 servings and much of that is french fries,'' reported Evelyn Tribole, a California-based registered dietitian who is nationally known for her books on eating nutritiously while spending life on the run.
Adults are twice as likely to start the day with coffee than fruit or vegetable juice.
At breakfast, only 10 percent of their food is fruits, vegetables or 100 percent juice. At lunchtime, the figure was 17 percent and at dinner, the time when most vegetables are eaten, only 28 percent of the meal was fruits, vegetables or 100 percent juice. Snackers are four times more likely to pick up a processed snack rather than a fruit or vegetable. The bleak picture painted by these statistics compiled for the National Cancer Institute's 5 A Day for Better Health program by MRCA Services, is further darkened by the findings for children. Children are twice as likely to eat french fries than any individual vegetable.