Eat your vegetables! say researchers from the National Cancer Institute and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They have studied what kids ages 2 to 18 eat, and it's not greens.
Five servings of fruits and vegetables a day are recommended for good nutrition. But each day, half the kids in the study ate less than one serving of fruit, and nearly a third ate less than one serving of vegetables. That's not including French fries: those greasy suckers account for one-fourth of the vegetables kids eat.
On-the-run kids--and adults--are missing out on veggies. As pediatrician Frank Thorp says, "You don't get string beans at McDonald's."