Keep the junk food out of the house and only allow the veggies! Most children stay inside and play on the computer. So if they are sitting instead of moving, It is best they eat the veggies!

Fruits Too !

First the parents need to buy and prepare fruits and veggies. Not a whole lot of em' in happy meals and frozen pizza.

Why cook them at all? My kids eat carrots, cucs, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, zuchinni, yellow squash and more but it has got to be raw. Sure, they ask for (and get) low-fat/no-fat ranch dressing on the side for 'dip' but crunch, crunch they go!!!

Vegetables are the original convenience foods. Unlike bananas and oranges you don't have to unwrap a carrot or broccoli.

I never did understand why most American kids hated vegetables so much and why adults insist on dressing it up whenever it's served at the table. Growing up, I ate vegetables the Chinese way: always a big plate of vegetables that was cooked simply. Hardly any dressing, unless you count soy sauce for certain vegetables, and I could still taste the natural vegetable sweetness. Shame that the house I grew up in was previously owned by Caucasians, because my parents could never do proper stir-fry that cooks the vegetables at high heat for a very short time and keeps the freshness, because of the puny little flame. Americans need to stop treating vegetables as side-dishes, and see it as a dish in and of itself that should be on the table at every dinner.