Oh come on.... Veggies?

We all know they're good for you and that we're supposed to eat a pretty good amount of them, but according to an article I found at www.msnbc.com/id/18079934/ people are eating a lot less vegetables than they were 20 years ago. This is a problem that most Americans face, as I believe the article says only 11% of the population gets enough vegetables in their diet.
When I first read this article, my first thought was that no one eats vegetables because they don't like the taste, and because they would rather reach for those comfort foods we are all guilty of having. I ended up looking at another article from msnbc that somewhat surprised me by what I learned there (www.msnbc.com/id/18057874/). The author tells us how its better to eat solid vegetables instead of drinking vegetable juice basically because the juice does not contain as much nutrients as the real thing. The juice is good for you, but don't rely on it to give you your full servings of vegetables.
So how do you get a population of people to start liking vegetables again? The writers of these articles suggest starting very young with kids. Part of this is making sure that you eat whatever vegetable you feed them. If they see others eating it, they'll be more willing to try it. As for adults and older children, suggestions were made to sneak vegetables into certain foods you all ready eat.

In my opinion, its a lot easier said than done. If a person lives alone, fixing their diet might be a lot easier than if they were living with someone else. If a person lives with other people, then everyone in that household would have to agree to start eating more vegetables in order to have a better success rate at reaching better health. I see this from my own personal experience. I can't say how many times I've failed because the temptations of ... you know, its not that there were comfort foods and junk foods still in the house because my family still chose to eat them all the time... its that I couldn't control my cravings for whatever I saw and thought I'd rather have...and I couldn't have just a little of something, I had to have a pretty good amount in order to be satisfied. Sometimes I'd still want that kind of food even after I was full.

While I'm thinking about it, one of those articles said that fiber helps that full feeling...

All right... now I'm starting to see where my own problems are. I'll write more on it in a separate post.