Why? Because most Americans are lucky to get 10 minutes of walking exercise in day and eat fruit and vegetable once or if you lucky two times in week. Than you have here comes honey boo boo types that may not have it hardly at all.
And if there lucky have peanut butter jam sandwich or cheap junk food cereal like Froot Loops!! Or miss the morning breakfast.
And if you live in Texas’s with adult obesity rate at currently 31.9% eating burger and fries the big servings .
Unless you a food nutrition no one eats 4 to 6 small times in a day with fruit and vegetables many times in day.
Most Americans eat two or three big serving in a day than 4 to 6 small serving in day. And if you a honey boo boo types you may add two or three times of day of eating junk food.
The Healthcare recommendation of 4 to 6 fruit and vegetables servings in day is beyond laughable. You would not even eat that many times in day!! Even trying to eat 4 to 6 ice cream cones in day would be hard for most Americans unless you where honey boo boo types with big stomach for food cravings all the time.
If the Healthcare recommendation had one or two fruit and vegetables servings in day I think many Americans could fit this in. And long with eating 4 to 5 smaller food servings in a day than two or three big servings in a day.
4 to 6 servings, not 4 to 6 meals. “Serving” has a very specific meaning in this case; each type of food has a certain quantity which the FDA has defined as a “serving” of that food. If you read the Nutrition Facts on the back of a package of food, it’ll tell you how much is considered to be a “serving”. The meals that most people eat will contain multiple “servings” of foods (though maybe only one serving, or less, of any particular food).
Assuming you eat 3 meals in a day, the recommendation means “in each meal you eat, you should try to get one to two servings of fruit and vegetables”. That may mean two different fruits / vegetables within a meal, it may mean one big “serving” of a vegetable which is effectively two “servings”, etc.
For those who care … most Americans do not exercise as much as is advised and do not eat as much vegetables and fruits as are advised, but this bleak it aint.
The advised standard actually currently varies by age, gender and activity level but centers around 5 cups a day; relatively few hit it. Pretty stable numbers since at least 1999.