Why Eat
Dear Mary,
Your mom is right, these dark leafy green vegetables are great for the body. Not only do they help provide energy, but they also filled with plenty minerals and vitamins that are vital for humans to intake from food. Want to grow up tall and strong. Keep your bones strong by eating dark leafy green vegetables such as Kale to increase the calcium intake and will help to decrease the risk of having osteoporosis a disease where not enough calcium is consumed and your bones become very weak. Listen to your mom, she understands what she is talking about (because shes older she would know more about the proper health necessary in human survival. There are so many greens to choose from to eat, remember that vegetables, especially dark leafy greens provide great benefits.
Dear Amy,
My mom always tells me to eat my leafy greens, but the thing is they taste gross and are unappealing to me. For dinner my mom always cooks broccoli and spinach and other leafy green vegetables, why? Shouldn’t food be made to taste good. If I don’t eat these vegetables my mom gets very angry with me why?
Healthy?
Ask Amy , is a column where teens like you, ask questions
and Amy answers these questions, explaining the importance
of eating healthy, and staying away from junk food.
what does it mean when doctors, parents and family tell you to eat healthy? Why do parents always tell you to eat your greens and your vegetables? Those pieces of broccoli, the spinach or the carrots laying on the edge of your plates? What good would those vegetables do for you? In this column Amy answers all questions that readers, young teens like yourselves have asked about the importance of vegetables.