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From:	Dr. Doug Graham (DrGraham.vegsource.com)
Subject:	Re: greens fruit calories
Date:	November 8, 2009 at 9:19 am PST

In Reply to: greens fruit calories posted by durianraider on November 7, 2009 at 11:39 pm:

I have no idea where you read what you remember reading, nor do I
have any memory of having said or written such a thing as "get as
many calories as you can from greens."
I typically recommend that we get a range of calories from greens,
depending upon a variety of factors, that keeps your intake averaging
somewhere between 1-5% of calories. That is a fair quantity of greens.
I have found that when people consistently consume more than about
6% of calories from greens, especially in the form of whole foods, that
two things happen. One is that their overall calorie intake starts to
drop, because there just isn't enough physical room for all those
greens plus a lot of fruit, and then the second thing happens, which is
that people get drawn, even driven, to eating a greater quantity of
their overall calories from fatty foods such as nuts and seeds.

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