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Thursday, December 29, 2011

How to Make Children Want To Eat Vegetables?


Vegetables are an important food to eat. Children must also be willing to consume these foods. However, because the taste is bland, it's hard to ask the child to consume. What can you do to make your child want to eat? According to the researchers is fairly easy; smile while eating.
Quoted by Reuters, a group of French scientists doing research on the reactions of adults and children in perceiving the image of people who were eating. The results said that the way adults with young children assess the object of people who are eating differently.
Adults assess the proportion of food through the body of the eater. If existing models in the photo has a large body, the respondents would reject if given the same food as the one in the photo. Conversely, if the slender model, respondents tend to be interested. While the kids how to judge a photo contains a person eats has a more complex reaction.
If food is in the picture and offered to children who were complicit in these respondents, such as chocolate, no matter their body size of the model, they would be willing to accept the food. If food is in the photo is not their preferred food, the size of the body of the model was influential, they will increasingly reject if the fat-bodied model.
Not only that, it was an expression of people who are taking food also affects the child's curiosity to try a food. Photos of people who eat with happy expressions and not contrived to make children interested in trying the food, body shape does not matter who eat. Conversely, photos of people who eat with the expression of disgust with the same foods will make children reluctant to try.
That is, for adults, body size eaters have influence in the sense of adults want to consume. As for the children, need of expression and the type of food they like to persuade the child willing to try certain foods, and body size factors of which he sees only a little effect.
According to Sylvie Rousset, representatives of these scientists say, the results of this research outside of their expectations, because there is no study that says an expression of others affect the children's curiosity. From these results, according to Rousset, parents can take advantage, that while eating healthy foods, try taking it with an expression of happy and liked the food.
"Although a person's eating habits are quite complex, but such studies can reveal differences in psychosocial factors that shape attitudes of children towards food and eating habits of their long-term,"said Rousset.

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