Home grown produce tastes far better...

Some of the answers to weight loss are extremely simple but with our busy lives and with so many solutions put forward to us by different diet books and weight loss promotions we sometimes overlook the simple solutions completely. For example if you want your children to eat more healthily and to have more fruits and veg apparently you should plant your own garden!  Researchers from the University of Saint Louis in America claim that children who have a back garden growing their own fruits and vegetables are far more probable to eat the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables every day.

Children like the excitement of seeing things growing in the garden and when they are brought up with that and they understand the magic of nature, they are more likely to eat healthily. Another thing we know is that the promotion of fruits and vegetables is no good unless the final product actually tastes good and very often in supermarkets fruit and vegetable is displayed in an unappetizing way which discourages children from eating them.

Also the reason why children who have their own vegetable patches tend to eat more vegetables is because home grown produce tastes far better than a lot of the produce found in supermarkets. Often for example you buy oranges which have come all the way from Argentina, by which time they have shed most of their flavour and juiciness. The same can be said for all sorts of vegetables that are imported from all over Europe. If you are serious about eating alot of fruit and veg you must go to a local farmers market where the produce has come from the local area and therefore will be far fresher and far more natural than something that has had to cross an ocean to get you.

It is a shame that the same amount of effort which goes into promoting unhealthy foods like Big Macs and other unhealthy food doesn’t go into promoting vegetables and fruit as this would definitely have a useful impact on the eating habits of UK people.