- Fruits and vegetables, especially dark-skinned berries such as blueberries and blackberries
- Oily fish such as wild salmon and tuna, which promote brain health
- Turmeric, the spice which makes curry yellow and contains some of the highest levels of anti-oxidants of any food on the planet
|Ella Chabot (L) shopping for locally grown veggies at a farmers market in Johnson City, TN|
- Teach them about good foods such as dark chocolate, leafy green vegetables, and dark-skinned berries that promote good moods, increase focus, and prevent attention deficit disorder.
- Give them a day a week when they get to plan a dinner for the family.
- Shop together at your local farmers market (find one near you at www.localharvest.org).
- Buy age-appropriate kitchen tools and invite your children to chop and cut vegetables and fruits with you (a favorite choice in the Growing Healthy Kids Test Kitchen is always the lemon squeezer).
- Give your kids choices ("Do you want to cut up red peppers or snow peas?")
|Veggies for happy, healthy kids|