chris wrote:
> 2 questions for the experts out there...
>
> 1. I'm sure many of you would agree that an ideal diet should
include
> 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
> spinach and other vegetables? If so, how do you recommend I change
my
> 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