Weight-Loss Halloween Challenge: Week 2 Bonus: Colors

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This weeks Challenge:

Why Five a Day the Color Way
Eating 5 or more servings of colorful fruits and vegetables a day is part of an important plan for healthier living. That’s because deeply hued fruits and vegetables provide the wide range of vitamins, minerals, fiber, and phytochemicals your body needs to maintain good health and energy levels, protect against the effects of aging, and reduce the risk of cancer and heart disease.

Choose the Colors of Health
It’s all about color –blue/purple, green, white, yellow/orange, red and the power of colorful fruits and vegetables to promote good health. So when you're grocery shopping, planning your meals or dining out, think color.
And for variety, make it 5 A Day The Color Way:

BLUE/PURPLE
Boost the level of BLUE/PURPLE in your low-fat diet to help maintain:

• A lower risk of some cancers*
• Urinary tract health
• Memory function
• Healthy aging

Beat the Effects of Aging
Blue/purple fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of health-promoting phytochemicals such as anthocyanins and phenolics, currently being studied for their antioxidant and anti-aging benefits. Get blue/purple every day with foods such as:
Blackberries
Blueberries
Black currants
Dried plums
Elderberries
Purple figs
Purple grapes
Plums
Raisins

Purple asparagus
Purple cabbage
Purple carrots
Eggplant
Purple Belgian endive
Purple peppers
Potatoes (purple fleshed)
Black salsify
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GREEN

Add GREEN to your low-fat diet to maintain:

• A lower risk of some cancers*
• Vision health
• Strong bones and teeth

Go Green. Go Healthy.
Green fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of potent phytochemicals such as lutein and indoles, which interest researchers because of their potential antioxidant, health-promoting benefits. Go green every day with fruits and vegetables like these:

Avocados
Green apples
Green grapes
Honeydew
Kiwifruit
Limes
Green pears

Artichokes
Arugula
Asparagus
Broccoflower
Broccoli
Broccoli rabe
Brussels sprouts
Chinese cabbage
Green beans
Green cabbage
Celery
Chayote squash
Cucumbers
Endive
Leafy greens
Leeks
Lettuce
Green onion
Okra
Peas
Green pepper
Sno Peas
Sugar snap peas
Spinach
Watercress
Zucchini
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White

Working WHITE into your low-fat diet helps maintain:

• Heart health
• Cholesterol levels that are already healthy
• A lower risk of some cancers*

White for Wellness
White, tan, and brown fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of phytochemicals of interest to scientists. These include allicin, found in the onion family. Get all the health benefits of white by including foods such as:

Bananas
Brown pears
Dates
White nectarines
White peaches

Cauliflower
Garlic
Ginger
Jerusalem artickoke
Jicama
Kohlrabi
Mushrooms
Onions
Parsnips
Potatoes (white fleshed)
Shallots
Turnips
White Corn
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YELLOW/ORANGE

Make YELLOW/ORANGE a part of your low-fat diet to help maintain:

• Heart health
• Vision health
• A healthy immune system
• A lower risk of some cancers*

Powerful Antioxidants
Orange and yellow fruits and vegetables contain varying amounts of antioxidants such as vitamin C as well as carotenoids and bioflavonoids, two classes of phytochemicals that scientists are studying for their health-promoting potential. Every day, include orange and yellow fruits and vegetables like these:

Yellow apples
Apricots
Cantaloupe
Cape Gooseberries
Yellow figs
Grapefruit
Golden kiwifruit
Lemon
Mangoes
Nectarines
Oranges
Papayas
Peaches
Yellow pears
Persimmons
Pineapples
Tangerines
Yellow watermelon

Yellow beets
Butternut squash
Carrots
Yellow peppers
Yellow potatoes
Pumpkin
Rutabagas
Yellow summer squash
Sweet corn
Sweet potatoes
Yellow tomatoes
Yellow winter squash
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RED

Be sure to include RED in your low-fat diet to help maintain:
• Heart health
• Memory function
• A lower risk of some cancers*
• Urinary tract health

Red-hot and Healthy
The specific phytochemicals in the red group being studied for their health-promoting properties include lycopene and anthocyanins. Get your reds every day by eating fruits and vegetables such as:

Red apples
Blood oranges
Cherries
Cranberries
Red grapes
Pink/Red grapefruit
Red pears
Pomegranates
Raspberries
Strawberries
Watermelon

Beets
Red peppers
Radishes
Radicchio
Red onions
Red potatoes
Rhubarb
Tomatoes
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Let's be sure to get one of every color - every day... :D
 
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This weeks challenge is a point to each team that has at least 50 percent compliance with getting in their fruits and vegetables on daily basis... You're challenged to eat 5 servings of fruits OR vegetables a day, or a combination of the two long as the number reaches 5...

Remember a serving is generally 1/2 a cup -a nd let's see how colorful you can be.
 
I am loving this challenge. I love my fruits and vegies now....I'm looking up to varying them up now.

Thanks Mal!!

~ Sara Maria ~
 
OK - this might not be as easy for me as the water!
Just for clarification, do we simply need a combo of 5 fruits & vegies, or do we need something from each color group?
 
I think as long as it's a fruit or vegetable...if it's every color, I'm in trouble! lol

I was tired last night and didn't prepare so great for lunch and all, so when I got up this morning I grabbed a bunch of fruit...a banana, 2 peaches, an apple and some grapes. So I'm set already! :)

I forgot, also grabbed my last sweet potatoe pancake...yay me, got a veggie in too!
 
M2M said:
OK - this might not be as easy for me as the water!
Just for clarification, do we simply need a combo of 5 fruits & vegies, or do we need something from each color group?
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any combination is fine.. i was originally gonna go with one of each color.. but that'd be too hard...

Five fruits or veggies a day is actually pretty low, most nutritionists say you should get 7-9 servings of fruits/vegetables a day.. so we're shooting for the minimum... Just no spinach unless it's from a farmer's market :D
 
So 5 a day any 5 as long as it reaches 5...AWESOME...I do this already...:):):)...the water was hard...I got there maybe 50% not everyday...:(:(:(
 
:eek: Oh, this one is definitely going to be a challenge for me, but I'll give it my best shot!:) Great challenge Mal!
 
Interesting find, and a great challenge idea! I eat a lot of green peppers, red peppers, plums, carrots and broccoli-- four colors, yay! But there's a *ton* of plant matter on that list that I haven't tried yet. Challenge or not, I'm going to try to up the variety this week! (And get something from that white group in, too; white corn is dee-lish!)

Sifen
 
YAY! A challenge I can do. I'm on my way to the grocery store tonight so I'm in the process of picking up a ton of fruits and veggies to eat anyway. Get excited! I think I can do it! Thanks, Mal. You rock!
 
This challenge is awesome!! I'm happy I am still a psuedo-vegetarian. I probably eat this much fruit and veg by noon!! YAY
 
Ok... I can definately do this challenge if it's a combination and not one from each group! I'm looking forward to all the fresh fuit and veggies I will get this week!! Great challenge Mal!!
 
I love fruits and veggies - and I looked in my fridge this morning to see what kinds of fabulous things I could eat - and I have almost NO fruits or veggies *ack* That's what I get for not cooking at home recently...
 
I think this is going to be a little more difficult for me then everyone else because we don't get a whole lot of variety at our grocery store as far as fresh fruits and veggies go. Because they have to be shipped a very long distance alot of the stuff is way past its prime when I see it. we pretty much have the basics only at the grocery store, lettuce, cabbage, one kind of pototo, one kind of onion, one kind a pepper, regulare carrots. we don't even get a variety of apples, just one kind. Do canned/frozen veggies and fruits count?
 
Wahoo! I can do veggies!!!

I've had raisins and two apples today...weehee!!!
 
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