A friend / acquaintance of mine who happens to be a nurse told me the other day that the official line about having to eat five fruit or vegetables a day is a lie. What you should be doing is eating eight fruits a day, but the government thought everyone would give up if they tried this so they just told everyone to eat five. I suppose the idea is that there'll be a gradual fruit creep over the years till at some point in 2050 we'll all be on eight fruits a day. I'm not sure which idea I dislike more, that I know have to eat eight fruit a day, that the government lies to us, or that as a population we're incapable of eating eight fruits a day. Anyway, that's besides the point. The point is, we need to be eating more fruit and vegetables and the best way of doing this is to become slightly more liberal over what a fruit actually is. Here's my proposed, revised fruit and vegetable list.
Ok, this isn't about this but your link on the right.
"Creationism is a load of garbage," Chalke declares.
mmmmmmm....
that's shocking. is he saying God didn't create the world in any way, or..?
I'll leave the response till I respond to Chalke indepth. But at to Matthew, you're right, steak certainly is a vegetable. or a Fruit. or something. As are Juicy Fruit sweets.
what about tutti fruttis?
Too camp.
email chalkey, kev: enquiries@oasisuk.org
I did
got a reply from the oasis trust, Chalke was misquoted, and if you visit this page on their site - it's there response
I mean "their" response
I thought there was some survey saying the benefits of eating fruit and veg peak at 3, and after that there's not much point.
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I'm disappointed you haven't included steak. So juicy it must be fruit...
On the whole Steve Chalke thing: "Jesus was an activist before he was a preacher": I don't know what gospel he's reading, but the first thing mine record him doing once he begins his ministry is preaching a message of repentance. Unless you count being a carpenter as being an activist.