Don't tell them it's healthy

A friend of mine was telling me about her child's school and how they were doing a unit on healthy eating. They were doing cooking in the classroom and having people come to run sessions with the kids. The school had the best of intentions and it all sounded so positive and terrific  until I started to find out finer details.  A honey farmer and cooking fruit salad with jelly. It saddens me that people think you need to 'sweeten' the deal when it comes to healthy food.  We need to start marketing healthy foods to kids! I read a great book on this called "Don't tell them it's healthy".  Try motivating your kids by telling them the benefits of healthy eating, in kid terms! Fruit salad (without the jelly) will help them jump higher in basketball, run faster at little athletics, concentrate more in their maths test, twirl well at dancing, tumble nicely in gymnastics or improve their drawings in art. 

This works for motivating adults too. What's in it for you to make your diet more colourful?

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