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Question

How can we encourage teenagers to eat more friuts and vegetables and the benefits of fruits and vegetables.Please help me out.Please give me paragraphs,if you can..

Answer 1

I wouldn't encourage them! If you push them to eat fruit and veg, they will grow to hate it. If anything, teenagers need plenty of meat and dairy produce for their growing bones etc. Fruit and veg is just as harmful as it is good. All fruits contain a high level of sugars. It is not uncommon for people to get food poisoning from green veg (listeria in cabbages, lettuces etc.). A bruised apple can contain "arsenic". If they look healthy and there are no complaints, let them eat what they want but make junk food a treat rather than the norm. It's not the food that is a problem, it's how each individual's body copes with the food. Some people can stay slim regardless of how many junk food meals that they eat and others will become obese in no time. As for fruit, with the wrong metabolism, you can get fat from eating too much fruit as well as overdose on vitamins etc. My daughter is 10 in a couple of months and she is the tallest in her year at school. She is more like a 13 to 14 year old and has to wear teenagers clothes. She wears a size 5 shoe (wears her mother's LOL). I never pushed fruit and veg on her. Nor did I encourage her to eat oily fish when it was claimed that it improves intelligence. She eats the same as me. However, she has always ate good quality, fresh meat produce, fish (not oily) and dairy produce (milk, eggs, butter and cream). We eat a salad once or twice a month and she really enjoys it as she doesn't get it too often. Her weight is around 45 kilos (7 Stone) and she is 1.5m (around 5ft) tall. She isn't obese but she is tall, broad and strong. She is advanced in most subjects for her age and has her Gold Award Level 1 Saxophone. This is not because I listen to Government advice ( or their paid to support them scientists), she's so healthy because I refuse to listen to the political propeganda which is used to increase the sales for farmers and to raise more revenue (tax). It's because I know better than a politician, as to what is good for my daughter and what is not and I have never had to apologise for getting it wrong, unlike politicians have to, on a regular basis.

Answer 2

If you share family meals you can easily sneak the vegetables into meals. Try casseroles complete with meat, cheese, and vegetables. If you cut the vegetables small enough the kids won't be able to pick them out easily. My grandmother used to actually puree the vegetables so we didn't even know they were in the food. As long as it isn't an overwhelming flavor it probably won't be noticed.
Also you can try some baked goods that include fruits. Substitute applesauce or pumpkin for half of the oil called for in cookies and breads. Or fruit pizza is always a big hit among my family! A fruit or vegetable dip with presliced fruits and vegetables can be quite inviting also.
If you make the fruit and vegetables interesting and incorporate them into your food you shouldn't have any problems. Try allrecipes.com for some great recipe ideas.

Answer 3

Animals who eat raw food do not require tooth brush.

Eat only when hungry and not more than thrice a day. Nothing other than water in between. Include plenty of uncooked vegetables and fruits in each meal, preferably 50%.

Chew each morsel at least 32 times. Do not touch articles of food or the cutlery in between. This will activate ur body to generate strong signals of hunger/fullness. Obey these signals.

Take light exercises and brisk walks (minimum 20 min duration) regularly preferably twice a day.

U will achieve what u have not even dreamt and that too in a reasonable time. Do not be in a hurry. It is however to be noted that one cannot change the shape or size of different parts of the body.