"Pagkain ng gulay ugaliin, araw-araw itong ihain"

"Eat Vegetable Everyday For a Better body and a longer life"

                 Our life is the greatest gift of God. Everyday in our life we used something that will make our life longer and that is also one of the basic needs of people and that is “Food”. Food is very important because we cannot live without this. Not all foods are nutritious and sometimes it is not good to our health.

                   This year 2012, we are celebrating the 38^th nutrition month of July with the theme “Pagkain ng gulay ugaliin, araw-araw itong ihain”. This celebration aims to encourage Filipino’s to eat more vegetables and to increase country’s vegetable consumption. Vegetables are important as it gives vitamins and minerals to our body to prevent and fight disease.

                    Some children doesn’t like to eat vegetables, some of their reason is it has a bad taste. The parents should explain and encourage their children to eat vegetables and they should always serve it everyday. Avoid eating junk foods because it contain high levels of calories from sugar or fat with little protein, vitamins, and minerals. Junk food increases your risk of heart diseases, which block your arteries with plaque and causes heart attacks and strokes while vegetables can give us strong body resistance.

                 As early as possible we should eat vegetables in our daily life. We should take good care of our health because everyday we should have an energy to make our mind function well and have an alertness.