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Do you eat enough fruits and vegetables each day?  If you have any question about it, you need to check out the Center for Disease Control’s “Fruits and Veggies Matter” website.

What’s great about it is this…They have a fun little calculator that enables you to plugin your age, sex and physical activity level which then calculates how much fruits and veggies you should be eating each day.  Along with that, it gives you sample recipes to help you include these necessary food groups into your meals.

Now…couple all of this with some other fun interactive tools like the “Analyze My Plate” tool and the “What Counts as a Cup” feature and you’ve got a great resource for nutrition!!

I encourage any cyclist who is interested in eating right to make sure they visit the “Fruits and Veggies Matter” website, if anything, just for fun.

I know as a cyclist, I’ve become very aware of what I put in my body, on my body or even just around my body…so this type of information is helpful and I thought I would pass it along.

For those of you who like to keep a current eye on any type of recall, whether it’s foods, cosmetics, medicines, products, etc…you may want to check out Recalls.gov.  This is a government funded website that lists the following types of recalls:

Consumer products
Foods, Medicines, Cosmetics
Motor Vehicles, Car Seats
Environmental Products
Meat and Poultry
Boats and Boating Safety

This website is jam packed with recall information and is definitely worth a look if you like to keep up to date on these types of things.

I found a great website resource for Diet and Nutrition called NutritionData.com.  On this website, I read that March is National Nutrition Month (an observance sponsored by the American Dietetic Association).  To bring increased awareness to this occasion, there’s a quiz that tells you how your nutrition habits stack up.  For those of you who are interested in eating right, maintaining a healthy body and weight…take the quiz and then bookmark the site…there’s a lot to learn.  Check it out.