Irish Children are not getting their five a day
By ashling on July 4th, 2012 and posted in information
Latest Irish National Diet and Nutrition survey shows:
- 53% of children do not eat raw vegetables or salad
- 40 % do not eat cooked vegetables
- 60% do not eat cooked green vegetables
- 11% of boys and 7% of girls eat no fruit or vegetables at all
- 75% of children drink fizzy drinks
Optimum Nutrition ( which includes five portions of fruit and vegetables a day ) can :
- Improve children’s mental clarity, mood and concentration
- Increase their IQ
- Increase their physical performance
- Improve their quality of sleep
- Improve their resistance to infection
- Protect them from disease