How to get Fruit is nature’s best repeated exposures

after school snack and for a new fruit to be

kids to eat dessert food. It helps accepted.
more fruits. protect kids from
Buy smaller sized
asthma, high blood
By: Ginalyn Caraballe fruits that fit into a
pressure, diabetes,
lunchbox, or cut larger
and later, heart
fruits into a small
attack/stroke. For
Real fruit is being example, one of U.S
pieces with a melon
baller, pear, cutter, or
displaced from kids’ study found that
knife. If you make it
diets by packaged eating burgers three
easy for them, they’ll
snacks, softdrinks, and times a week was
eat it.
junkfoods, all of which linked with a higher
lead to early chronic risk of asthma,
diseases. whereas an increased
An analysis of the intake of fruit,
2007 Australian vegetables, and
National Children’s omega-3 fats was
Nutrition and Physical associated with a
Activity survey found significantly reduced
that almost half the risk of asthma.
kids polled ate after
school snacks that
How much do they
contain high saturated
need?
fat, such as cookies,
cakes, and pastries, Encourage your kids
and at least 30 percent to eat fruit every day.
of their daily calorie Following are the
intake came from this minimum amounts
processed foods! they need for good
health (A serving is a
Yet may many of this
one medium piece,
children didn’t achieve
two small fruits or one
their daily target for
cup – up fruits)
whole fruits intake,
with only 1 percent of
14-16 y/o getting
What parents can do
enough, not counting
juice! Surprisingly, fruit The best way to
intake tends to decline influence your kids is
as children get older. to be a role model.
Teach them about the
importance of fruit,
Why fruit is the and introduce them to
different varieties in
perfect snack? season. Studies show
that it can take up to