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...people have to take supplements to get enough vitamins? Nutritionists and doctors agree that everyone's basic needs could be met by eating a diet rich in vegetables and fruits. The U.S. government's 1990 dietary guidelines urge an ambitiously varied meal plan: three to five servings daily of vegetables, two to four of fruit, as well as six to 11 of breads, rice, pasta and grains and two to three of meat, eggs, poultry and dried beans...
...There's a lot of food in the bags. An awful lot of fruit, an awful lot of lunches," he says as he inspects a woman's bag at Widener...
...just below the lethal level. In the case of the artificial sweetener saccharin, mice were given the equivalent of hundreds of cans of diet soda a day; similarly, a person would have had to eat thousands of apples a day to get the maximum tolerated dose of Alar, a fruit-ripening chemical used by growers until it was withdrawn from the market because of a cancer scare. If as few as five mice out of 200 given these megadoses develop tumors over two years, the substance is usually labeled a carcinogen...
...everyone had "character." My friend managed to trade a hardened Siberian man a "March for Women's Lives" button for two pears. That was the last fruit we saw for a while...
...problem is that our constant attention to decades and history and tracing the roots of humanity back thousands of years, the search for the beginning of the universe, the search for life on other planets--it all makes my existence seem insignificant. I am a fruit fly on the time line of history...