Slowly but regularly

More vegetables will help everyone. There are few people who don't. And statistically, you probably don't belong to the group of people who have enough vegetables in their diet.

Don't worry about grams, just start eating it

There are the types of people who get tested in the lab. There they calculate, among other things, how many grams of vegetables to put in, when exactly to eat them, how to vary them and what to combine them with. We're originally from IT, we also like to measure, calculate and work with data, but we don't think it makes much sense here. Until we can measure things in realtime that we are only now learning exist (like the gut microbiome), common sense and our gut feeling will deliver the best results. Both are a time-honed source of data not to be missed. And of course, we're looking forward to the new Apple Watch with blood sugar measurement.

Why eat lots of vegetables

• It is urgently needed by your gut and its inhabitants. But for them, it's not just about quantity, it's about variety. The more variety of vegetables you eat, the more fibre your gut gets. And with it, you'll get more types of vitamins and minerals into your gut. So ideally, in one week, eat 30-40 types of vegetables.
• It'll make you feel better, make you leaner, sleepier, more beautiful, and keep you around longer (*misleading).
• You'll have less cravings for sweets and other sweets. The more veggies you eat, the less room there is for junk food.
• You will absorb vitamins and minerals better and more naturally than in capsules.
• You'll save money on capsules and doctors.
• You'll probably move closer to more fun ways of eating - you'll become interested in fermented things, you'll try wild herbs, you'll start to recognize umami flavors.
• Your blood sugar won't go up and down like it does when you drink a pint of orange. Vegetables have a lower glycemic index than fruit.
• It helps from acidification of the organism. Most of us are over-acidified due to stress and an incomplete diet. This makes it easier for our bodies to develop inflammation and various other problems. Naturally, the blood is supposed to be slightly alkaline and vegetables (especially green ones) help to neutralize or even make the environment slightly alkaline. And beware, the pH of a food does not equal what it causes. Lemon, for example, has an acidic pH but acts alkaline in the body.

Instead of shocks - slowly

We are not fans of low-calorie diets. We don't find it reasonable to eat McDonald's every second day, meat every day, and then go on vegetables and water for a week (it's a little different with regular or intermittent fasts, but we'll talk about that another time). Even if it works in the short term, no one can tell you what you've done to yourself with long-term malnutrition. The key is gradualness and regularity. Get it into every day. A little extra vegetables. A carrot here, a salad there, a piece of beetroot there. And don't cheat - you eat enough potatoes as it is, you won't catch up with those. But go ahead and have a watermelon, it's a vegetable (btw, the fiber in watermelon has been shown to strengthen the intestinal wall, heal the kidneys, etc.).

Seasonal, local, organic

You'll figure that out gradually on your own. If you haven't figured it out already. Not everything grown within 5km of where you live is good. But at least a little bit of consideration as to whether it went halfway around the world, or whether I'm supporting someone in the neighborhood with that purchase, is probably generally reasonable. Not everything organic and bought at farmers' markets is better, but grating non-organic lemon peel into your food isn't exactly the best idea (vinegar is good for getting rid of pesticides from cistrus peel, but you still won't get rid of imazalil, for example). We're mainly guided by taste. And naturally it is often seasonal, local and organic.

But let's not be rigid - sometimes we also tell ourselves that this time it's just going to come across the world to us and we'll enjoy it because it's just too good and worth it.

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Get started. And if you'd like some help with that, drop us a line and we'll set you up with, say, a twice-weekly pick-up of a pint of juiced vegetables. Maybe in combination with fruit at the beginning, to get you through. We'll deliver in the morning around Prague. Sip slowly.

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The text was put together by Pavel Fuchs and Jana Jelič, so if you find anything wrong or misleading, please write. Photography by Mr. Dan Dujsik. Model behind the counter: Kristy.