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Childhood Obesity and Fresh Vegetables and Fruits



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Is your child a picky eater?  Do you have to sneak veggies into muffins, sauces and breads to help your children get their daily quota? Maybe you’ve just given up on cooking veggies and serving them all together because what’s the point, your children won’t eat them anyhow. What worries me is when a child thinks a vegetable is a French fry or ketchup and their pallet does not know what fresh tastes like but they prefer processed. Watch this video from Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and you’ll most likely feel the same alarm I felt when I viewed it from the Huffington Post’s coverage of how our children don’t even know what is a fruit or vegetable.

Obesity in America is at an all time high. Children are eating fast food, processed food and not learning about healthy eating, where food comes from and how sweet, tasty and delicious foods like tomatoes, cucumbers and potatoes can taste. To help with this I wanted to share a delicious and healthy tomato snack that the entire family is sure to love!

Mini Tomatoes with Cottage Cheese

What You Need:

-30 cherry tomatoes

-1 C small curd cottage cheese

-1 tsp. celery salt

-1 tsp. mustard

-¼ tsp. onion powder

How to Make It:

-Remove the tops of the cherry tomatoes.

-Remove the seeds and set tomatoes aside.

-Place the cottage cheese in a mixing bowl.

-Fold in the celery salt, mustard and onion powder being sure to mix together well.

-Fill each tomato with the mixture.

-Cover and refrigerate until ready to serve.

Kids like these because they are easy to just pop in their mouth while on the run.  They are great with just plain cottage cheese too.


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  • Fruits and veggies is definitely a good start!! We need to do everything in our power to give our kids healthy, nutritionally sound food. But there is another area that desperately needs our attention. What's missing is the focus on changing the way our food is produced. Many of the food that is advertised to kids (and adults) as healthy has hidden poisons in it in the form of MSG or monosodium glutamate and other artificial ingredients. These ingredients trick our brains into eating more, and thus, keep us fatter and sicker. These poisons and excitotoxins should first be exposed, and then eliminated from our food supply. You can read more about this at:

    http://cchronicle.com/2010/02/msg-by-any-other-name/

    http://cchronicle.com/2010/02/msg-by-any-other-name-part-ii/

    Please do your part to educate yourselves about the ingredients in our food and then read labels before buying or eating food that contains these poisons.
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