How can parents create good vegetable-eating habits? How do you get young kids to enjoy vegetables and reach out for them? Research finds out what really works.
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A new study shows that school cafeterias are noisy and that the noise level matters: With each decibel increase in the cafeteria sound level kids ate less fruits and veggies.
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A new study joins others in showing that over time, well-meaning parents’ attempts to curb unhealthy snacking by restricting them backfires and achieves the opposite results. On the other hand, if parents remove unhealthy foods and replace them with healthy foods, without comment of fuss, kids eat better after a while.
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It’s easy to do things we enjoy, that’s why it’s critical that kids enjoy healthy foods. To make healthy foods desirable we need to employ all aspects of food joy.
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“Kids should eat more because they’re growing,” some say. “Kids should eat less, small bodies need less fuel,” say others. So which one is it?
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"So good it’s addicting,” now why isn't healthy food promoted this way? Appealing to people with information about health has limited success, especially when messages about those other, less healthy foods appeal viscerally.
Read MoreWe fall in love with the things we make -- that's why kids should learn how to cook plants!
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Unless we can make junk-food marketing to kids disappear altogether – good luck with that! – we should try to level the playing field by giving veggies a marketing boost.
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Should parents comment about what their kid puts on his plate at a party? Evidence suggests that efforts to restrict kids’ intake are actually associated with obesity.
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