From the Health at a Glance: Europe 2016 – State of Health in the EU Cycle report.
EC Rep Ireland tweetz:
Irish teenagers almost at the top of the class for daily consumption of fruit and veg…
Take that, Dr Eva
Yay.
Read the report in full here
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Also below average for smoking and alcohol consumption and above average for physical exercise.
Curiously enough about average for obesity though, although comparisons on this kind of thing are hazardous.
It says less than half of Irish teenagers eat a vegetable every day. Good news if you’re a carrot, I guess. Did they adjust the figures to account for tomato being a fruit?
Boys from Finland don’t like fruit or veg very much.
I mean, do they just ask the kids? they cant be so stupid as to think they would get the truth from 15 year olds do they?