I know that this is probably splitting hairs, but I get really annoyed when people tell me how ridiculous it is to cut back on fruit (this is, of course, despite the fact that I do eat some fruit and tons of vegetables). What I find strange is that while the food pyramid pushes so many servings of fruit and vegetables daily, there is no real differentiation between the two categories. Technically, a fruit is the fleshy, seed-bearing part of a plant; so eggplant, tomato, cucumber and zucchini fall into this category. A vegetable is a root, stem or leaf of a plant. Why do people insist that the fruit I will supposedly wither away without is only the sugar-filled, top-of-the glycemic index type? Just a thought...