The head BG and Liza are always on me to eat fruits and veggies, but they really taste terrible to me so I ignore them. Them being the fruits and veggies and the pesky editors.
I like a consistent product, like hamburgers or French fries. Those pretty much always taste the same and you know what you’re going to get. You can never tell if you’re getting a “good” strawberry though.
At any rate, this LA Times article is interesting because it’s promoting fruits and veggies not through my long-term health (not particularly motivating) but my vanity (more motivating).
Side note: When I was very small, my mom fed me too many orange fruits and veggies and actually turned me orange. It’s like a cautionary tale and shit.
Photo borrowed from the LA Times.
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A friend of mine turned me onto The Beauty Detox book, which is kind of all about how fruits and vegetables make you pretty. I don’t follow her (Kimberly Snyder) ideas word for word, but since I’ve cut down on the bad stuff and started eating more of the good stuff, the peeps have noticed. A girl at work the other day asked which cleanser I used because I was so glow-y. How about them apples?
Get it? Get it?
Preach, Lindsay!
LOL on the orange veggies. I knew a girl in high school who did the same thing.
To her baby? Cause we might have gone to the same high school.
That whole “turning orange from eating too many carrots” thing–I thought it was just an urban myth! As in I knew it was possible, but never knew anyone who’d had this happen to them. And now I do. Poor you, that couldn’t have been very fun.
I knew somene whose face turned orange from using Burt’s Bees carotene skincare — this was years ago, though, before they launched all their newer stuff. Not a Burt’s Bees problem now. *grin*
I have kinda the opposite problem though on the hatred front. I could just kinda eat fruit forever, and never eat any protein or etc. A problem, as in fact fruit has A LOT of sugar. Candy of the health world, and all that. I am madly obsessed with grapefruits. As in, I’ve finished off over a dozen this week!! I better be glow-y soon (word stolen from Lindsay.)
Have a steak to balance all that grapefruit out, will ya? That’ll get your glow on. *grin*
(I love grapefruit. Cranky does not. I think she might like steak, though.)