Switch to a Plant-Based Diet with a Flip of a Switch, New USDA Dietary Guidelines to Recommend More Fruits and Vegetables

New USDA Dietary Guidelines to Recommend More Fruits and Vegetables

OLMSTED FALLS, OH - The USDA recently announced plans to revise its Dietary Guidelines and USDA Food Pyramid chart to recommend a primarily plant-based diet. To combat the American obesity epidemic, the USDA is suggesting more vegetables, cooked dry beans and peas, fruits, whole grains, nuts and seeds and much less meat, oils, eggs and sweets on a daily basis.

For those who want to make the switch to a plant-based, whole-foods diet according to the USDA's recommendations, getting the right equipment may be just what the doctor ordered. With Vitamix's flagship household blender, the Vitamix 5200, eating fruits and vegetables won't seem like a chore. The Super Vitamix 5200 can perform over 50 different processes without any separate attachments including making healthy sorbets, whole food juice, even making piping hot soups heated by nothing more than the blades spinning at 240 MPH. When fresh vegetable soup only takes minutes to cook from scratch in the Vitamix and a fruit smoothie takes seconds—creating a healthy meal plan for the entire family no longer seems out of reach.

"These new guidelines certainly fit into a Vitamix lifestyle," says Jodi Berg, president of Vitamix. "My great-grandfather, William G. (Papa) Barnard, who founded Vitamix, was promoting the virtues of a whole food diet as early as the 1920s. Today we have thousands of loyal customers who have made Vitamix high-performance blenders an integral part of their healthy diets. In fact, most of our Vitamix recipes already feature several servings of fruit and vegetables and whole grains."

As Vitamix aficionados already know, a plant-based diet doesn't have to sacrifice flavor. With an efficient 2 peak HP motor, whole foods aren't just blended in the Vitamix 5200; they are pulverized, seeds, stems, skin and all. By rupturing cell walls and creating more surface area, the Vitamix releases the full flavor of what you put in it, not to mention releasing more nutrients.