How can you get kids to eat more vegetables and fruit?
How can you get your kids to eat more vegetables and fruit? It is easy to get kids to eat junk food but when it comes to vegetables, it can be quite a struggle. So what can a parent or child care provider do? Apparently, the same marketing techniques fast food and junk food advertiser’s use, can be used to get kids to eat more vegetables and more fruit. A recent study in Pediatrics, Marketing Vegetables in Elementary School Cafeterias to Increase Uptake , looked at 10 elementary schools and tried different approaches to get kids to eat more veggies. A banner with vegetable characters displayed on the salad bar TV spots of vegetable characters talking about health education Both the vegetable characters displayed on the salad bar and the TV spots of vegetable characters The researchers studied the number of elementary students taking vegetables from the salad bar over a 6 week period. So what worked the best? The banner pictures of v...