VEG OUT ! HOW TO GET YOUR 5 & 2 A DAY
Eat more vegetables and fruit. Yes, we know — we’ve heard it before! As a nation, however, our fruit and veg intake is still alarmingly low. Only half of all Australian adults and two-thirds of kids are eating the recommended two serves of fruit a day. And we’re not doing much better with vegetables, with only seven per cent of Australian adults and five per cent of children meeting the recommended five serves a day.
“Declining rates of vegetable consumption are of great concern to us,” says nutritionist Lucinda Hancock, CEO of Nutrition Australia Victorian Division. “The research shows the average Australian eats
