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The Hindu : Sci Tech : Living on a vegetable-free diet
A national diet and nutrition survey was conducted by the U.K.’s Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. According to the survey, it was that found that most British children eat less than half the recommended five portions of fruit and vegetables per day.
About 20 per cent of them did not eat any fruit at all in the week in which the study was carried out, apart from some of those foamy banana-shaped sweets and a packet of Jaffa Cakes (biscuits).
Indeed, in these heady days of obesity and overprocessing, children are so removed from the agricultural lineage of their diets that many now believe carrots come from sheep, and stories about youngsters having survived on nothing but jam sandwiches and Coco Pops for the first seven years of their lives are not uncommon.
And yet the little tykes miraculously continue to thrive. No one appears to have a good explanation for this.