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EU launches school fruit campaign

 

The EU wants children to develop healthy tastes early on

The European Commission has launched a scheme to provide free fruit and vegetables to schools across Europe in a drive to curb child obesity.
The commission aims to spend 90m euros (£71m; $141m) annually on the scheme - a sum to be matched by participating governments, who are yet to approve it.
About 22 million children in the EU are overweight - more than five million of them obese, the commission warns.
The figure is expected to rise by
400,000 annually.

The World Health Organization recommends a daily intake of 400g of fruit and vegetables per person. Most of the EU's 27 member states currently fail to meet that target.

See graph of fruit and vegetable availability in EU

"Giving kids good habits at an early age is crucial, as they will carry these into later life," said EU Agriculture Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel, launching the scheme on Tuesday.
"Too many of our children eat far too little fruit and vegetables and often don't appreciate how delicious they are.
"You only have to walk down any high street in Europe to see the extent of the problems we face with overweight kids. Let's do something about it."
Earlier this year the EU's statistics agency Eurostat released data showing a wide divergence in the availability of fruit and vegetables among member states.
The figures, showing averages during the period 2001-2007, revealed British consumers as having the lowest supply of fresh fruit and vegetables, while per capita availability was highest in Greece and France.
Retail prices of fruit and vegetables also varied considerably across the EU. In 2006, the prices were about half the EU average in Bulgaria and about one-third above the average in the Republic of Ireland.

 

[floatingslowly]

did you know that female cats have clamps inside their lady holes?

I didn't until just a moment ago.

while we are on the subject, Glice's charts 'n graphs are more more interesting than "how many fruits are in greece vs. ireland". just sayin'.

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EU = Estados Unidos

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by floatingslowly

did you know that female cats have clamps inside their lady holes?

I didn't until just a moment ago.

while we are on the subject, Glice's charts 'n graphs are more more interesting than "how many fruits are in greece vs. ireland". just sayin'.

to answer yr first question, yes, I did, and that is why "did you ever wake to the sound, of street cats makin love, you would guess from the sound, you were listenin to a fight, but you know... hates just the last thing they're thinkin of, they're only tryin to make it, through the night.."

you might also be interested in the reproductive systems of ducks, the duck penis grows periodically to half its body length during mating season, is corkscrewed, and the female has a matching corkscrew pattern, and is considered the most complicated vagina in the animal kingdom, even more so then a JAP from west hollywood!

 

[Tokolosh]

It's a good initiative, but I don't think it'll really solve the problem of child obesity.
Some may disagree, but really, junk food advertising has always been directed at parents,
who ultimately decide what their kids are allowed to eat.
Teach them about healthy nutrition, and their offspring will follow.

[SuchFriendsAreDangerous]

Originally Posted by Tokolosh

but really, junk food advertising has always been directed at parents,
who ultimately decide what their kids are allowed to eat.
Teach them about healthy nutrition, and their offspring will follow.

not true, advertising is targeting children, because children are easily susceptible and can also convince their parents to buy practically anything. in the past 50 years, the buying power of children and teenagers has grown to match and equal that of adults in many markets! further, i think that this healthy eating program IS trying to target adults, as adults are they who feed the children to begin with. But classic experience shows that if you tell kids things their parents to do not know, the kids will teach the parents. So, I say, we should definitely teach the youth directly. they are a lot smarter then we give them credit.

[MellySingsDoom]

One surefire way of sorting out obesity in the UK:

 

[ploesj]

it's a good idea that might work for kids that don't see any fruit at home... maybe.
if you give a kid healthy food from the start it will learn to appreciate fresh foods by itself and it won't crave junkfood as much.

so the parents will have to do an effort too, even though it's hard to get a healthy fresh meals on the table everyday when they're working.

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during this year there was a pilot program on several schools promoting fruit and impressively they end up selling more apples than chips.

[Tokolosh]

Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous

not true, advertising is targeting children, because children are easily susceptible and can also convince their parents to buy practically anything. in the past 50 years, the buying power of children and teenagers has grown to match and equal that of adults in many markets! further, i think that this healthy eating program IS trying to target adults, as adults are they who feed the children to begin with. But classic experience shows that if you tell kids things their parents to do not know, the kids will teach the parents. So, I say, we should definitely teach the youth directly. they are a lot smarter then we give them credit.

You're contradicting yourself.
We = Parents/Elders. No?
It's absurd to think that other people have to do the job that parents should be doing.

Advertising might manipulate children to a certain extent, but ultimately,
their parents are the breadwinners, and they are the ones who decide what's good for them.
If you ask me, any parent who can't say no to their kids, needs councelling.