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Urban black men in the U.S. typically fit few fruits and vegetables into their diets and most are unaware of how many servings they should be getting, a new study suggests.
Health experts generally recommend that men eat at least nine servings, or about 4.5 cups, of fruits and vegetables each day. But in the current study, of 490 urban, mostly immigrant black men, the average intake was just three servings per day.
What's more, 94 percent were unaware that men should strive for nine daily servings of fruits and vegetables. When asked what health experts recommend, most of the men in the study chose "one to four" servings as their answer.
Dr. Randi L. Wolf, an associate professor of human nutrition at Columbia University in New York, led the study. The findings are published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association.