LINDA A. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
05-18-2005
Dateline: NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.
At one preschool, the ABC's stand for apples, broccoli and carrots. As schools nationwide contend with an epidemic of obese youngsters, the Nutritional Sciences Preschool at Rutgers University has been teaching children as young as 3 to choose fruit and vegetables over junk food. And the kids seem to like it.

"We love broccoli!" 3-year-old sisters Sara and Molly Balsamo of Milltown told preschool director, Harriet Worobey, one day last week.

In another ...

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