 Question is from double zero silk drop Do vegetables and fruits carry equal weight when it comes to nutritional necessity? It seems like they are always lumped together You mean like in comparison to each other or in general like to other foods to each other So because you know we always say eat your fruit and vegetables like they're put in the same category Okay, so this is a great question now. I would say this in in the context of today. Okay, so modern times vegetables are More important than fruits You're going to get more nutrients vegetables tend to kick the crap out of fruits In terms of nutrients and how many nutrients they deliver to your body They tend to be better in terms of fiber And they are typically lower glycemic in calorie and lower in sugar not always right Corn is a vegetable and I guess a potato could be considered one maybe But but they're they're lower calorie higher nutrient I would say if you had to pick one or the over the other go for vegetables now if we look at the context of Evolution and the context of you know when we were hunter-gatherers Fruit was more valuable because fruit typically had more calories and more sugar I know now that sounds like a bad thing, but let me tell you something. It was a good thing a long time ago Yeah, like you didn't if you were looking for food and you if you stumble upon a field of you know Broccoli or a field of apples the apples are more likely to make you survive. They've got more calories They've got more more usable energy more usable energy, but these days. It's it's vegetables It's I don't even push fruit on my kids that much I mean they'll have some fruit here and there and that's their snack every once a while But it's the vegetables I make a big deal. I don't have to worry about scurvy as much now, which is good What didn't you I would say though a cup of a cup of berries from a fiber point If we were gonna compare like if you have somebody who doesn't have Trying to think of like all the times where maybe I've I've wrecked actually recommended fruit. Yeah, that's a good exception Right. Yeah, like so you're like the one one thing that I do calm and it's calm Like if I have somebody I always happy clients Monitor their stool and pay attention to that and if I have somebody who has Constipation and I noticed that they're really low on fiber. They're not getting enough and maybe they're you know they have you know some asparagus spears at dinner and they had like a you know iceberg lettuce Lunch and so they in their head. They're eating enough greens And so they think they're getting a ton and they're not a ton of fiber okay, so you know a handful of asparagus and Salad for for lunch doesn't equate to a ton of fiber That somebody would need and if you're somebody who's listening and that is an could be a normal day for you Easily you could be eating under your daily requirement for fiber. So having someone eat a cup of blueberries blackberries strawberries raspberries all the berries Is a good punch of fiber No, this is a good point because on a on a volume to volume comparison fruit actually does pretty damn good When it comes to fiber the difference is this the difference is I can eat a lot more Leafy green vegetables and not consume calories, right? So that's why I'm saying the context of modern life like vegetables seem to be more power packed Yeah, they seem to be better, you know But you're right on on a volume per volume berries have a lot of fiber, right? That's where I wanted to be careful with us Recommending that direction because there's been many times where I've had clients that are not eating enough fiber And just simply trying to get them to eat a little bit more vegetables It's hard because the amount of vegetables that you need to eat if you if you were to do no No fruit at all and get all your fiber from vegetables. You got to eat quite a bit. You do Oh, yeah, you got a that's that's a lot of vegetables are meant to be that way by the way They're meant to be eaten a lot eat the fuck out of them That's they're so low in calories if when humans ate vegetables in the past We ate a lot of them because they didn't give us a lot of calories. So we said we sat down We ate a shit ton of them. You know I'm saying so that's the way you're supposed to eat vegetables And that's supposed to have just a little bit of vegetables You're supposed to have a lot of them and I recommend to people Especially people with digestive issues cook them cook your vegetables cook them well It makes them easily easy to digest don't eat them wrong my god Do you eat a lot of raw vegetables and you're you're in a whole world to hurt you guys ever do that? They'll destroy you ever eat like a bowl of raw broccoli. No, oh you're I could see you doing that. That's I did do that. I did do that once and I was I Mean it wasn't until we I never even ate vegetables like that until we met until We met and I remember it really was when we saw Dr. Terry wall. That's right when we interviewed Dr. Terry walls She kind of really opened my eyes on like even on my my highest vegetable day I was grossly under eating still on on what what we yeah, that resonated with me a lot, too Yeah, I'm just not doing enough and I know Sal's already by that time was already doing his you know bowl like his giant Bowl of rapini that was think the entire joint up. Yeah, and I just I had never ate vegetables like that And so it wasn't until you guys and Doug also with like his his Brussels sprout recipe like now I do this like now I will sit down and have a Giant bowl of Brussels sprouts or I'll have a giant bowl of rapini or broccoli or spinach like a huge thing's a spinach all time So I never did that before and so I imagine there's a lot of people listening that are Probably like me where they considered themselves. Oh, I eat vegetables like I didn't not eat vegetables But I was not getting nor nowhere near enough of what my body probably needed And not and not and I know there's someone rolling their eyes right now because it's not needed to survive But to to be optimal health. Yes for optimal health. Yeah, what are the differences that you notice when you eat a lot of vegetables? Oh, yeah, no my digestion is awesome digest in your stool your your energy levels my I mean I just I felt a 10 times better scan like I notice a lot of little things like that that were that were different when Basically everything vegans promote. Yeah No, no 100% so That to me that those are the things you have to kind of consider if are you getting that much? Not that many vegetables in a day And if you're not then I do see a lot of value of of making sure fruit is integrated in there Also, so it's like you either need or you need to have a day that is just plentiful of Lots of vegetables and sitting down and actually having a big bowl of Vegetables at one point in your day and if you didn't that would be a great day probably to have you know a small cup of berries because One cup of berries is packs a nice punch when it comes that's such a good point I guess it would be this if you're just gonna have a little bit fruit might be better If you're gonna have a nice big plate vegetables would probably be better from a nutrient standpoint energy wise fruit kicks ass They're packed full of energy if we cut out the starchy vegetables that you know like corn and and potato Yeah, I guess you can put in there, but otherwise. I mean they're both pretty damn good. They're great for you You can't overdo fruit. I'll say that fruit is so damn palatable. I've had clients in the past Just because I said yeah, I eat fruit don't worry about it and they just went nuts on it And just a incredible amount of fruit and then we had to reduce their fruit intake so they could drop their calories So you can't overdo the fruit as well, but they're both good. It depends on the context. I guess would be the answer