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According to a mapping made by the Brazilian Family Budget Survey, which investigates individual food consumption in a total sample of homes, there is a scenario that favors an epidemic of obesity and other non-communicable chronic conditions related to excessive and/or unbalanced food consumption. Thus encouraging the consumption of vegetables helps healthy diets, since they are served on the side of a protein and a carbohydrate. Vegetables are low in calories and rich in water, fiber, vitamins

Status: Completed     Start date: Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 GMT-03:00 2017