Hi everybody this is Monica Reinagle and you're listening to the

nutrition divas quick and dirty tips for eating well and feeling fabulous

thanks so much for joining me in In last week's show, I talked about the ways in which my own eating habits have evolved over the last six years since I began doing the nutrition diva podcast.

This week, I'd like to highlight some hopeful findings from a new survey about America's eating habits as a whole.

And now let's take a look at this recent survey.

Parade magazine asked a thousand people from various regions of the country about their eating habits,

and then they teamed up with the MPD group to analyze those results in view of historical data.

Now of course there were a lot of things in the survey that you could ring your hands over.

28% of our elementary school children, for example, still find a juice box in their lunch box every day.

Moms, dads, please don't think that fruit juice makes that lunch healthier. All it does is establish a lifelong habit of

drinking sugary beverages with meals. If your kids need the calories, they should be

drinking milk or non-dary milk with their meals and if they don't need the calories they should drink water

And the same goes for you parents by the way

We're also still eating way too much fast food

8 out of 10 meals eaten in restaurants We're also still eating way too much fast food.

Eight out of ten meals eaten in restaurants,

8 out of ten, are eaten at fast food joints.

That might explain why French fries and pizza sauce are the two most commonly consumed quote unquote

vegetables in America. And despite all evidence to the contrary, we still believe

that dieting works.

Four out of ten of us went on a diet sometime during the past year.

And chances are that same 40% are going to go on a diet next year too

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