So it begins.

From time to time I try to improve my health by eating at least twenty eight different fruits and vegetables in a week. This magic number comes from a study done on cancer patients tracking diet. Patients eating 28 or more fruits and veg per week had the highest survivor-ship rates, and lowest cancer rates.

This also hooks into Bill Byrson's interesting essay (In a Short History of Nearly Everything) on scurvy. Wherein he explains it is not simply a shortage of vitamin C, but a result of a monotonous diet.

Who wants a monotonous diet, who wants a monotonous life?

S and I (C), as a encouragement strategy decided to compete on our respective 28's. Today she sent me the included pic on her phone with the caption "#winning".

After some text banter we decided a blog would be the best way to track actual triumphs and defeats as well as share recipes and talk food.

So it begins. January 9th 2012. Each week begins on Monday. The competition will go until the world ends this December or barring an Aztecan Apocalypse, a mutually agreed upon finish line.

C