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Re: 2 Questions: Healthiest vegetables? & Risk of vitamin A overdose?

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  1. chris said:

    2 questions for the experts out there...

    1. I'm sure many of you would agree that an ideal diet should


    include

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    a wide variety of vegetables everyday, but if for some reason you had
    to eat the same, say, 4 or 5 vegetables each day, which would be the
    healthiest to consume?

    2. If my daily diet includes a big bowl of raw spinach, steamed
    broccoli, carrots, tomatoes, and other vegetables, am I at risk of
    overdosing on vitamin A, which I understand has high concentrations


    in

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    spinach and other vegetables? If so, how do you recommend I change


    my

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    diet?

    Even with 4 or 5 veggies you can have variety, especially if they are
    from different families--i.e., cabbage and broccoli would give less
    variety than broccoli and tomatoes. A friend ate several carrots every
    single day without fail for months and her skin turned yellow. Other
    strange symptoms appeared, she went to the doc, who diagnosed vitamin A
    overdose. His prescription was, stop eating so many carrots.

    I doubt there is a real answer to "which would be the healthiest."

    -aem

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