A new study from the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reveals that parents have less influence on their kids’ eating than ever. What’s directing their dietary choices instead? Advertising, school lunch, and peers. Which might explain why people’s nutrition is quickly declining.
“More attention should be given to the influence of the other players on children’s eating patterns, such as that of schools, the local food environment and peer influence, government guidelines and policies that regulate school meals, and the broader food environment that is influenced by food production, distribution and advertising,” said Dr. Youfa Wang, the study’s lead author.
Or maybe it’s time for parents to start becoming a stronger influence on their child’s diet again.
How do you get your child to eat healthy?
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We typically just don't offer other choices, but started early so it's a lot easier. We make sure vegetables/fruits are appealing or part of a larger dish. Our kid actually asked when we were going to get more broccoli at one point (mostly because she didn't care for the other veggies). I get the feeling it's a lot harder to encourage if you don't start earlier.
I don't. And I quit trying. But my son is a teenager.
He has never eaten anything but meat and potatoes.
I have to say that this study is true (at least to me) cause I have noticed that my youngest child tend to look at her older sister and eats as she does. My oldest is 8 and she is now looking at the label of food to find out how much fat, sugar and proteins are there and my youngest does the same.I am thankful that my oldest is a veggy lover so the youngest is learning from her and is really being influenced and trying new things.
My son already eats healthy. He's really good at eating fruits and veggies. I didn't have to trick him into eating them, and I didn't force them on him. Somehow, he just loves eating really healthy foods.
I think all kids go through stages. I eat everything so I never had to worry about my kids being picky eaters.
We keep offering. The kids shocked us by loving brussel sprouts. I would have never thought.
i agree with jay- keep offering- even if your child is going through a phase of not liking a certain food, she/he may have a change of heart at some point.
We've never really had picky eaters in my family… the kids just love eating anything basically.
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