Make markets a summer ritual for your family

www.Grub4Life.com today reports that parents have a great opportunity this summer to make fresh and healthy meals for their children, especially with childhood obesity on the rise and no end to the mass-marketing of processed foods.13-07-2010

There is no more urgent time to make a visit to the market a family ritual. For uninitiated children, it will be a jarring separation from the candy rack. But the gains are clear: Childhood obesity can be a precursor to a lifetime of poor health. Beginning the process of weaning children from processed food should be a summertime ritual.

If parents give their kids the opportunity to pick one fruit or vegetable, any fruit or vegetable, we wager that more than one youth will be entranced by the fire-truck red of truly fresh tomatoes or the aroma of ripe peaches. Their lives will be better for it.

Read the full story at: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/editorials/articles/2010/07/12/obesity_making_fresh_produce_a_summer_ritual/.

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