A couple of weeks ago I wrote about planting with your son. I hope that you have taken my advice and started this great hobby with your family. Our tomato plants are going strong and so are the grape tomatoes. Now there is a habanera pepper plant in my garden placed there by one of my sons. I have warned him that this had better not show up in any of my meals as even medium Buffalo wings will make me break out in a sweat. I haven’t eaten a Rolaids is months and I don’t want to start now!

Speaking of vegetables, we have a problem with them around here. Only a few people enjoy vegetables and out of six people in this family the appetite for them is varied. One will eat this kind, one won’t eat any unless they are covered with cheese, one doesn’t care if any vegetable hits his mouth, and then of course there is my mother who will eat any vegetable grown. Myself, well I am a fussy vegetable eater. The problem with this is I just finished a Nutrition course as one of my college science credits.

With this course was a great deal of research on the body, how it works, what it needs and what the body does with it. I will tell you that of all the college courses I have taken, this one is the one that has given me more useful information for my life and the health of my family that is useable than any course I have taken. The number one thing that I have learned, but I always knew but choose to ignore, is we all should be dead after eating constantly at fast food restaurants. Even those low calorie meals that would be healthy for you is dangerously littered with salt. Could that explain my two blood pressure pills a day? Perhaps.

For our team project at the end of the course my team mates and I had to put together a PowerPoint™ presentation about what an adolescent needs to grow. The food, the vitamins, the proteins, fats, and carbohydrates are all so important to an adolescent to gain energy and strength. Energy and strength not just to perform their daily functions, but to help their bones, organs and entire body grow. What I was amazed with is that the amount of calcium that a child needs helps with their pulmonary development! Amazing things I have learned.

I will be glad to share all this information with you. This is important information for the health of our children, not just for now but in fact will have plenty to do with their health in their mid life years. I will be glad to forward this information to you as they are facts not only from my own research but research done by my professor and my fellow classmates. There are many sites within Bellaonline.com that you can find nutrition information for your children and yourself. I will simply add to the wealth of information that is already here.

By the way, growing your own vegetables and fruits allows you to ensure your son will get his nutritional needs if you allow him to help you with the decision making and caring for your garden. This too makes sure that you are getting pure vegetables with no fertilizer or at least clean fertilizer, and no chemical pesticides or insecticides. And that’s great news for your son and your entire family!