What statement best describes the typical American diet?

Answer 1

According to Dr. Joel Fuhrman, the Standard American Diet (SAD) contains:

• 25% sweet deserts and soft drinks
• 26% other processed and refined foods
• 42% animal flesh, eggs, and milk
• 7% fruits and vegetables

Answer 2

Unfortunately, no. There's too much salt, sugar, fat, and calories.

Humans evolved from simple unicellular organisms in the mineral-laden ocean. Now, billions of years later, the saline fluids around and in your cells and organs recreates that environment, with a similar balance of minerals. Sodium, along with potassium, provides the electrolytic "battery" that pumps nutrients in and out of cells and maintains the proper balance of fluids inside and outside each cell. Because sodium is not easily found in the land environment, your body evolved to retain it. Potassium, on the other hand, is plentiful in a land-based diet (in vegetables, nuts, seeds, and fruits) and so we do not retain potassium. The modern industrialized diet reverses the natural availability of sodium and potassium: potassium is leached out of processed foods, and sodium is used extravagantly as a flavor enhancer and preservative. In addition, the modern diet often lacks magnesium and calcium, and manufactured table salt is exclusively sodium chloride.

Answer 3

too much sugars