Fruits Info

They have the right idea over in Europe. Let's start cheering people to eat more fruits and vegetables.

Although Europeans are eating worse now than they did 47 years ago -- with diets too rich in sugar and saturated fats, agriculture and right farming policies can help promote healthy diets, pointed out an economist with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

The FAO's Josef Schmidhuber told representatives from member countries of the Regional Offices for Europe of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the FAO that the "FAO is actively promoting fruit and vegetable manufacture for both health and for income-generation for producers," FoodNavigator.com reported.

Hurrah! Cool idea. Now why don't they do that over here?

The FAO economist also said that an ongoing joint WHO/FAO plan on fruit and vegetables represented "an exciting avenue for prolonged cooperation in the health, education and agriculture sectors."

American leaders and celebrities, are you listening? We could get some ideas from our European brethren.