Fruits and vegetables contain health-promoting nutrients that combat cardiovascular disease — the leading cause of death in this country.

Let’s face it.

Eating healthy has as much sex appeal as watching grass grow on an inner city playground.

None. Nada. Zippo.

But like everything else associated with life and death, it’s almost mandatory.

Take eating five servings of fruits and vegetables each day. It’s considered a benchmark of healthy eating and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) tried to spread that word years ago.

The response has been less than enthusiastic. In a 2007 report, the CDC determined that less than one-fourth of adults in this country claimed to have consumed the recommended amount of fruits and vegetables.

The numbers ranged from a low of 16 percent in Oklahoma to a high of almost 33 percent in Washington, D.C.
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A salad a day

Wiley Mullins is on a mission to improve the health of black people — one salad at a time.

It hasn’t been easy.

After earning a business degree from the University of Alabama and an MBA from Duke University, he gave up his job in marketing with Procter & Gamble to start his own business, Uncle Wiley’s Inc., that brings out the flavor of soul food without using ham, bacon, lard or butter.
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