{"id":102087,"date":"2025-08-28T01:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102087\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T01:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T01:03:09","slug":"jamie-oliver-says-five-a-day-is-a-lie-and-brits-should-be-eating-up-to-11-portions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/102087\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver says \u2018five a day is a lie\u2019 and Brits should be eating up to 11 portions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jamie Oliver<\/a> has thrown out one of the most common pieces of health advice<\/a>, saying that \u201cfive a day is a lie\u201d and that seven to eleven portions <\/a>of fruit and vegetables are better for \u201cmeasurable benefits\u201d.<\/p>\n

The 50-year-old known for his legacy of ushering in healthy school meals<\/a> across the UK said that the advice \u2013 supported by the NHS \u2013 is a myth.<\/p>\n

\u201cFive a day is a lie,\u201d he told The Times<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a lie based on someone deciding that we\u2019re not to be trusted. And I don\u2019t like liars.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that people do not \u201csee any measurable benefits\u201d until they have had \u201cseven to eleven portions of fruit and vegetables\u201d, adding: \u201cSomeone in the government has said that five a day is what you should be getting because they don\u2019t think we can handle the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

The NHS says that \u201cevidence shows there are significant health benefits to getting at least five portions of a variety of fruit and vegetables every day.\u201d It clarifies that this means five portions of fruit and vegetables in total and not five portions of each, with one portion weighing in at 80g.<\/p>\n

The campaign is based on advice from the World Health Organisation<\/a> (WHO), which recommends eating 400g of fruit and vegetables a day at a minimum in order to avoid the risk of serious health problems including heart disease, stroke and some types of cancer.<\/p>\n

But Oliver is insistent that Brits can do better.<\/p>\n

\"Oliver<\/p>\n

Oliver thinks Brits can do better than five a day (Getty Images)<\/p>\n

\u201cBritain can handle it,\u201d he said. \u201cAt first they might say, \u2018Seven to eleven?!\u2019 but after a month they will get over it. I\u2019ve got recipes in here [his new book Eat Yourself Healthy] that have 11 portions.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy the time you finish it you will be full, so you won\u2019t be complaining about going hungry on some bloody Jamie Oliver diet. You\u2019ll be stuffed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, research confirmed that 11 portions of fruit and vegetables <\/a>a day are indeed linked to better health outcomes.<\/p>\n

The study, published in the journal Clinical Nutrition, analysed data on more than 670 adults from the UK National Diet and Nutrition Survey between 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/p>\n

The NHS recommends five a day although new research suggests 11 portions could be better (Getty\/iStock)<\/p>\n

As the TV chef turned 50 this year, he also admitted that he has seen his recipes being \u201cnicked\u201d on social media.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll see recipes going viral on social media or TikTok and be like, that\u2019s my effing recipe they\u2019ve nicked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd I am not getting credit for it. But I think I can still control my old man\u2019s annoyance. The whole point of ideas is that you don\u2019t put them in a box. Take it, run with it, call it your own. That\u2019s what the Naked Chef is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n

Eat Yourself Healthy is out on 11 September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jamie Oliver has thrown out one of the most common pieces of health advice, saying that \u201cfive a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[49,48,84,58881,58883,395,58882,13355],"class_list":{"0":"post-102087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nutrition","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-jamie-oliver","12":"tag-measurable-benefits","13":"tag-nutrition","14":"tag-portions","15":"tag-world-health-organisation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}