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发帖数: 8870 | 1 for those have child(ren) picky for food:
The Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act recently went into effect, which requires
at least one serving of fruits or veggies on kids' school lunch trays. But
how do you get the kids to actually eat those veggies? Well, one way seems
to be to simply jazz up what they’re called. For example, instead of
carrots how about offering "X-ray vision carrots"? When researchers tried
that in five New York elementary schools, kids ate twice as many of Bug
Bunny’s favorite food.
A second experiment at two more schools dealt with broccoli and green beans
—two deeply unpopular items. But when renamed to "Tiny Tasty Tree Tops" and
"Silly Dilly Green Beans," veggie consumption again doubled. Those results
appear in the journal Preventive Medicine. [Brian Wansink et al., Attractive
names sustain increased vegetable intake in schools]
But the cool names would need to be just one tool in the fight to influence
kids. Because even at the end of the study, only five percent of the kids
were asking for broccoli or green beans—up from two percent before.
Nevertheless, it's a start. With a name like "Tiny Tasty Tree Tops," maybe
broccoli has a better chance at avoiding the “kooky, crazy junk container.
” Ya know—the garbage can.
cited from:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fun-ve
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743512003 |
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