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Vegetables
Follow the links below to information on the benefits of vegetables in the diet.
Updated January 2012
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Fruits and Vegetables for Children
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Links to information about the importance of fruits and vegetables in children´s diets.
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| Title: | Children's diet - fruit and vegetables |
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| Publisher: | Better Health Channel |
| Description: | Fruit and vegetables can be an enjoyable part of your child's diet. Fruit and vegetables contain essential nutrients that are important for a child's health, growth and development. Parents may worry their child is not eating enough fruit and vegetables. If you eat and enjoy fruit and vegetables every day, your child will usually follow your example. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | More about vitamins |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | The word vitamin means vital to life. All plants and animals need vitamins but only green plants can make all the vitamins they need. |
| Date: | Aug 2011 |
| Title: | Encouraging kids to eat their fruits and vegetables |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Editorial Team |
| Description: | The Gutsy Challenge is a campaign to encourage children to eat two pieces of fruit and four vegetables each day for a whole week to start healthy eating habits and raise money for digestive cancer research. |
| Date: | Apr 2011 |
| Title: | Fruit and vegetables for young children |
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| Publisher: | Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia) |
| Description: | Fruit and vegetables are full of vitamins and minerals for good health. They have no artificial colours or flavours. |
| Date: | Jun 2010 |
| Title: | Eat more fruit and vegetables |
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| Publisher: | NSW Department of Health |
| Description: | A simple fact sheet that promotes the consumption of the recommended number of serves of fruit and vegetables for children – includes what is a serve, tips to get children to eat fruit and vegies and ways to include these in meals and snacks. |
| Title: | How to get your child to eat vegetables |
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| Publisher: | Raising Children Network (RCN) |
| Description: | Tips on how to get children to eat vegetables and fruit, including ideas for increasing the amount of vegetables in your family diet. |
| Date: | Dec 2009 |
| Title: | Fitting more fruit and vegetables into your diet |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service |
| Description: | Information on why fruit and vegetables are important for good health. Includes tips for including more fruit and vegetables in the diet, and how to encourage children to eat more of them |
| Date: | Feb 2007 |
| Title: | Fitting more fruit and vegetables into your diet |
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| Publisher: | Multicultural Health Communication Service (NSW) |
| Description: | Why it's good to eat more fruit and vegetables each day, and how to do it. |
| Date: | Aug 1999 |
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