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<br>Julia MoravcsikJulia Moravcsik, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14999818284892643625noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701938693500799779.post-86577849408047731532015-01-16T12:00:00.001-06:002015-05-01T13:15:24.998-05:00Put Ketchup on Everything! Using Sauces and Flavors to Help Your Kid Like Healthy Foods<div class="MsoNormal">
By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDeiQWonyN6l8Y7E_-jpx4rEpVR_hBAYJ_4ma3iLbptcFVA0ytqmZNT0GS_fjswEfnqJxcj-fIxsmhG-BV7kTuwPk5596rQmDV6-N9e5czX1eni5tkeYF9jIlxrxCqBti7D8TGhb7w28v/s1600/ketchup2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGDeiQWonyN6l8Y7E_-jpx4rEpVR_hBAYJ_4ma3iLbptcFVA0ytqmZNT0GS_fjswEfnqJxcj-fIxsmhG-BV7kTuwPk5596rQmDV6-N9e5czX1eni5tkeYF9jIlxrxCqBti7D8TGhb7w28v/s1600/ketchup2.jpg" height="150" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mexicans love spicy tomato sauces. Americans love ketchup. Indians love curries. Almost every culture has a flavorful sauce that gets heaped on the family dinner.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Scientists think that one reason cultures have characteristic spices, flavors, and sauces is to help children quickly learn to like new foods. A Mexican preschooler who can dump his zucchini in an enchilada sauce will like it better because it has the comforting familiar taste that he has grown used to.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can use this principle to help your picky eater learn to like new foods, or to help your toddler enjoy the taste of a new vegetable.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1) <b>Use a sauce that your child likes.</b> It may be ketchup, cheese sauce, alfredo sauce, pesto, spaghetti sauce, or any other sauce that your child likes. If your child doesn't like any sauces, think of spices or herbs that he likes. He may like the taste of cinnamon, garlic, or pepper.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2) <b>If your child doesn't like any sauces, let him try new ones until you find one that he likes.</b> If you can't think of a sauce that your child likes, start introducing him to a variety of sauces and flavors. Once you find one that he likes, you can use it to help introduce new foods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3) <b>Let him glop it on.</b> Give your child a bowl or bottle of his favorite sauce each time you want to introduce a new food, or when you want to encourage him to eat a healthy food that he has been reluctant to eat. Experiment with putting the sauce on the food yourself or letting him take the lead. Some children would rather not see the unadorned food at all and others will want to have control in flavoring a new food.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4) <b>After a while, give him the food without the sauce.</b> Once your child has learned to associate the new food with the taste of the sauce, he will like it better. You can continue to give him the food with the sauce, or slowly switch to giving it to him without the sauce.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Once you start using this method, you will find that it is easier and easier to get your child to eat a wide variety of healthy foods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are more strategies to help your child like the taste of new foods.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2010/07/find-basic-recipes-that-your-child.html" target="_blank">Find Basic Recipes That Your Child Loves and Add New Vegetables</a></span></span><br />
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<a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2012/04/making-healthy-food-look-good-helps.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kids Like Food That Looks Good</span></a></span><br />
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<a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-reward-kids-for-eating-their.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How To Reward Kids For Eating Their Vegetables</span></a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food manufacturers know how to use psychology to get your child to like their products. Corporate researchers learn to use the psychology of taste preferences to make your child crave their empty calorie junk foods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food manufacturers count on the fact that if parents feed their kids processed food, even if they do so only occasionally, the kids will crave it and ask for it more and more. Eventually, some parents will give up and feed their children a steady diet of processed, manufactured food, ensuring a steady income for the food manufacturer giants.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some of the techniques that Big Food uses:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1) <b>Sugar</b> - Food manufacturers put sugar in most of their foods, even those that aren't desserts like spaghetti sauce or frozen meals. Human beings have a natural desire for sugar -- it signals calories and vitamin c, which were scarce in prehistoric times. The amount of sugar in manufactured foods is much higher than any foods that our prehistoric ancestors ever ate -- and produces an addictive response that can be as strong as cocaine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">2) <b>Fat</b> - Food manufacturers put vegetable oil in most of their foods. It's cheap and, like sugar, addictive in large quantities.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">3) <b>Salt</b> - Salt is also addictive and hides the unpleasant flavor that a lot of processed food has. Food manufacturers know that if your child is given a high salt diet, she will learn to crave the salty taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">4) <b>Mild Taste</b> - Processed food has very little taste. Manufacturers rely on salty, sugary, fatty tastes to get your child addicted to their food. Processed foods have little real flavors, compared to the strong taste of real foods like oranges, spinach, or cauliflower. This means that children can eat the food over and over again and not get tired of it. Your child can eat her sugary cereal or granola bar every day, but would get tired of broccoli if you fed it to her every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">5) <b>Predictable Taste</b> - Processed food tastes the same each time you eat it. One box of Oreos tastes the same as the next box. Your child gets used to the uniformity and starts to find the variation in natural foods like peaches or apples disgusting. In prehistoric times, if a food tasted different from usual, it usually meant it had gone bad. Food manufacturers know that if they corrupt this instinct by getting children used to food that is absolutely the same, the children won't go back to eating their parents' home-cooked meals, with its natural variability in taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">6) <b>Predictable Texture</b> - Like taste, children have an instinct to avoid foods that have an unusual texture, <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/children-dont-like-mushy-slimy-textured.html" target="_blank">especially mushy or slimy foods</a>. Food manufacturers know that if they get kids used to the uniform crunchy, chewy, or creamy textures that factories can create so well, they won't like the complex and variable textures of a real meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">7) <b>Appearance</b> - No parent can create foods of multi-colors, shaped like animals or stars. Children are very drawn to appearances, and food manufacturers know this.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">8) <b>Ads with Excitement, Fun</b> - Most of us can remember wanting a toy that we saw on TV, only because the commercial was exciting. The same is true of food. Parents don't advertise their home-cooked meals. Food manufacturers do advertise their food, with bright colors, music, smiling faces, and excited "cool" kids. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">9) <b>Ads with People Eating</b> - In addition to exciting ads, food manufacturers show people eating the food and enjoying it. Food manufacturers know that children have an instinct to eat the same food other people are eating. This instinct was beneficial in the days when many plants were poisonous -- children had to learn to eat the same wild plants that the adults around them were eating. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">10) <b>Packages</b> - Children love packages. Young kids will ignore a birthday present in order to play with the box it came in. Manufacturers know this, and make their packages as colorful and fun as possible. Children will whine for a cereal or candy, just because they like the box it comes in.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can a parent do? Try your best to keep your child away from processed food and processed food ads. The more children are exposed to processed food, the more they like it. For tips on how to wean your child off of processed food, read <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-children-like-processed-food-and.html" target="_blank"><i><b>Why Children Like Processed Food and What You Can Do about It</b></i></a>.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Other interesting articles:</span><br />
<b><a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/children-like-food-they-grow-up-with.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children Like the Food They Grow Up With</span></a></b><br />
<b><a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-children-dont-like-vegetables-and.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why Children Don't Like Vegetables - And What You Can Do About It </span></a></b><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're like most of us, you know that you want your child to eat healthier. But sometimes it's hard to know where to start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like any major life change, the best thing to do is to take that first step. Make a single change in your child's diet. Once your child has gotten used to one change in her diet, you can start working on another.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember, the food habits your child learns when she is young will stay with her for her entire life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To make it easier to take that first step, here are the EASIEST, BEST, and CHEAPEST changes you can make to your child's diet. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Easiest Change: Switch to Whole Grains</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Switching from white, refined grains to whole grains takes no effort whatsoever!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>It's no effort on your part. </b></i> You will be buying bread, rice, and flour anyway. Simply choose the 100% whole grain options!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can use whole wheat flour in almost any recipe that calls for white bread. You can even branch out and try little known whole grain flours like brown rice, whole rye, or high-antioxidant buckwheat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>It's no effort on your child's part.</b></i> Amazingly, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21872702">researchers have found</a> that children often <i>don't even notice</i> when whole grains are served instead of refined grains! And they usually rate the whole grain products as <i>just as tasty</i> as the refined grain products!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can start this change today. When you go to the supermarket, reach for the 100% whole wheat bread. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For more information about switching to whole grains, check out <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/10-ways-to-get-your-child-to-eat-whole.html" target="_blank">this article</a> and <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/teaching-kids-to-like-whole-grains-is.html" target="_blank">this article</a>.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Best Change: Cut Out All Sugar-Sweetened Beverages</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children drink, on average, an amazing 250 to <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602112340.htm" target="_blank">350 calories</a> of soda a day!<b> </b>Add sweetened fruit drinks, "sports" drinks, and other sweetened drinks, and you get almost 10% of calories from sugar-sweetened liquids alone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The human brain developed in an era where the only drink was water. Human evolution has not caught up with the food manufacturers. When you drink liquids, your brain <i>assumes that they are non-caloric</i>! This means that the calories consumed <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1829363/" target="_blank">do not have an effect on your fullness</a>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is why sweetened beverages have been singled out as one of the greatest <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090402104732.htm" target="_blank">contributors to obesity</a>. Your child may not have a problem with obesity -- yet! But many skinny kids grow up to be obese adults if they learn bad eating habits early on.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As well as contributing to obesity, sweetened drinks contain no nutrients other than sugar. If your child is getting 10% of her calories in sugar, that means that the remaining 90% of her calories have to be extra nutritious to make up for it! If not, then she will come up 10% short in her vitamins, minerals, and other important nutrients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to make the biggest impact in your child's health, start giving her only milk, water, unsweetened tea or unsweetened herbal tea for liquids. If she's used to sugary liquids she may complain at first, but thirst is a powerful force, and she will very quickly learn to like these healthy drinks. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Cheapest Change: Eat More Beans</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beans, such as black beans, kidney beans, navy beans, and garbanzo beans are some of the healthiest...and cheapest...foods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Beans can lower cholesterol, lower blood glucose, lower blood pressure, and reduce risk of cancer. They are also incredibly high in antioxidants, with some being <a href="http://www.webmd.com/food-recipes/news/20040617/antioxidants-found-unexpected-foods" target="_blank">higher than blueberries</a> in these valuable chemicals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Meat, on the other hand, is associated with <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120312162746.htm" target="_blank">heart disease, cancer, and early death</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Switching one or two meals per week from meat-based to bean-based will teach your child to love the taste of these mild, starchy vegetables. Beans are an instant love -- nobody dislikes their flavor. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to their health benefits, however, beans are extremely inexpensive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ground beef, one of the cheapest kinds of meats, costs <i>twice as much</i> per calorie as beans!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Switching from meat to beans is a no-brainer. Beans are healthy, they taste good, and they are cheap.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cook some black beans in a crockpot overnight, mash them up, and wrap them in whole wheat tortillas with cheese and salsa. No child will say no to these simple and healthy burritos! </span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you watch your pet dog discover a tasty morsel on the sidewalk, you'll notice a difference between him and yourself. Your dog probably found the morsel by sniffing. Most animals use their sense of smell to determine whether something is food or not.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Humans Use Vision To Determine What is Tasty</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We humans (like most primates) use our sense of vision to determine whether a food is tasty. After we see it, we then use our sense of taste and smell to verify that the food is indeed as tasty as it looks.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why is this? First of all, primates use their hands to bring food to their mouths. They have to have an initial idea of what to pick up or else they would spend hours bringing every object in their view to their mouths to taste.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second, we primates are smart, and we can form initial hypotheses about what might taste good. For example, humans and other fruit-eating primates see the color red very well because red is the color of ripe fruit. If a fruit looks red, it's worth trying a taste of it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed food manufacturers have an advantage over us parents -- they can make their food look especially interesting and fun. Peeps, candy canes, and cotton candy look more like toys than food. The fun look makes kids like them, even if they taste like nothing more than sugary chemicals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researchers have found that children like foods (<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666310000656" target="_blank">fruit</a>, for example) much better if they are presented in a way that is visually appealing. Children also like food with <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0950329311001200" target="_blank">fun colors</a> better.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make Healthy Food Look Beautiful, Interesting, and Fun</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is an entire culinary movement called Nouvelle Cuisine which is devoted to making food look appealing. (Here are some <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=nouvelle+cuisine&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=uYB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnsb&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=kQF_T4PrKeOS2QWkv72TBw&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CBcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1608&bih=765" target="_blank">pictures</a>.) Become inspired to do the same for your child's food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bill and Claire Wurtzel have authored a <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Funny-Food-Healthy-Creative-Breakfasts/dp/1599621118/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1333722027&sr=8-1" target="_blank">creative book</a> with dozens of pictures of egg faces, pancake people, and other funny dishes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can buy <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5886046/transportation-plates-make-dinner-a-moving-experience?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews&utm_medium=referral&utm_source=pulsenews" target="_blank">plates that look like coloring book pictures</a> and fill the plates with colorful healthy foods.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food art is an area where you can go crazy with the fruits and vegetables. Broccoli can be trees, grated carrots can be hair, and olives can be eyes. Take advantage of the many shapes and colors of fruits and vegetables. At the produce department, look for funny, cute shaped fruits and vegetables.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can use toothpicks to create a plateful of different mini-sandwiches made of vegetables. Or you can serve skewers with fruit and cheese. Use your imagination. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children can get involved in making food faces, animals, and people. You can provide dishes of different vegetables and get your children to decorate their next meals. This will help your children learn to cook, which will <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-learn-to-love-cooking.html" target="_blank">help them become lifelong healthy eaters</a>.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use Lots of Colors </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120105112050.htm" target="_blank">recent study found</a> that children like lots of different colors of food on their dinner plate. Adults liked three different colors of food, but children liked six or seven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Colors of food correspond to the number of foods, and children also liked more different types of food on their plates than adults. You can take advantage of this preference, because the more different healthy foods a child learns to like in her formative early years, the more healthy foods she'll like later on. Give your child lots of different foods for each meal </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't Make Healthy Food Look Like Processed Food</span></b><br />
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You may be tempted to get out the food coloring and the sprinkles. But making healthy food look like processed food will actually teach your child to like processed food! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child avoids artificial-looking foods, over the years she will come to find these foods slightly repulsive. She will know what real food looks like, and the bright purples, blues, and yellows of processed foods will seem like what it is -- fake food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Use the natural colors of real foods to create your food art: orange carrots, purple beets, blue blueberries.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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<i><b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some more strategies to help your child love the taste of healthy foods</span></b></i><br />
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<a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-children-like-processed-food-and.html" target="_blank">Why Children Like Processed Food and What You Can Do About It</a></span><br />
<a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/25-ways-to-get-your-child-to-eat.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">25 Ways to Get Your Child to Eat Vegetables</span></a><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChildHealthyFood" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Teach_Your_Chld" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. </span></i>Julia Moravcsik, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14999818284892643625noreply@blogger.com38tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701938693500799779.post-47530077588080835862012-03-21T09:42:00.002-05:002015-05-01T13:19:33.212-05:00Processed Food Makes Kids Take Larger Bites...And Eat More<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.flavourjournal.com/content/1/1/3" target="_blank">recent study</a> found that people ate less food when the food had a strong aroma. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Strong Food Aroma Made People Take Smaller Bites</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researchers had people <a href="http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-03/bc-hts031912.php" target="_blank">eat a custard</a>, and then blew a strong smell into the participants' noses as they ate. This gave the impression that the food had a strong aroma. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">They found two interesting things. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First, people took smaller bites when they thought the food had a strong aroma. If the food seemed flavorful, they seemed to need smaller bites to get the full taste experience.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second interesting thing was that when they took smaller bites, they ate less food! The participants who ate the flavorful custard ate 5 to 10 percent less of it!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed Food -- Little Aroma, Lots of Sugar, Salt, and Fat</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed food is often tasteless. It has little aroma. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It doesn't appear tasteless because it is so high in fat, sugar, and salt, that people get their taste experience from these tastes rather than from a delicious aroma.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Imagine eating some potato chips. You may think they're tasty, but the tastiness is due entirely to salt, grease, and texture. They have practically no smell. The same is true of most processed food.</span><br />
<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />Why Does Processed Food Have So Little Aroma?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ingredients that make foods aromatic are expensive. Herbs, spices, fruits, vegetables are hundreds of times more expensive than the bland refined grains and sweeteners that characterize processed food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Flavorful ingredients also lose their flavor quickly with time. Think of a loaf of freshly baked bread. It has a wonderful aroma. After a day, it's as bland as a store-bought loaf. Processed food takes weeks, even months, to get to your dinner table. By then, any flavor has long since dissipated.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Foods are more aromatic when they are hot. If you give your child a processed snack like a granola bar, the fact that it's room temperature will make it have little aroma, even if some of the ingredients, like fruits and nuts, would be flavorful if you heated them in the oven.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you give your child lots of processed foods, which have little aroma, you will be inadvertently teaching her to overeat. If she expects food to be relatively tasteless, she will stick to those foods which make her take large bites and therefore eat more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you make homemade meals with lots of antioxidant-rich herbs, spices, fruits, and vegetables, you will teach her to like the foods that will have sufficient flavor so that she does not need to take huge bites in order to get the taste experience that her brain desires. She will take small bites and eat less, and this habit will help her for the rest of her life.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/03/120315225751.htm" target="_blank">recent study</a> found that white rice increases chances of diabetes. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a parent, you want to teach your child to like foods that are healthy for him. You want to avoid foods that will cause chronic diseases, even if the chronic diseases usually affect adults. The food that your child eats now is the food that he will love as an adult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rice is not the problem. The problem is that the antioxidant-rice bran and germ of the rice has been removed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/06/100614161349.htm" target="_blank">Replacing white rice with brown rice</a> will reduce the risk of diabetes. <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=black+rice&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=black+rice&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=4gf&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnse&source=lnms&tbm=shop&psj=1&ei=wodoT4eDA4mtgwf6pcjCCQ&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=6&ved=0CFcQ_AUoBQ&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=f9230ef962d0caed&biw=2144&bih=958" target="_blank">Black rice</a>, which is higher in antioxidants than blueberries, is an even better choice. You can also try red rice or wild rice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you let brown rice germinate, called <a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=black+rice&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=o1K&rls=org.mozilla:en-US%3Aofficial&tbm=shop&sclient=psy-ab&q=sprouted+brown+rice&oq=sprouted+brown+rice&aq=f&aqi=g2&aql=&gs_sm=3&gs_upl=211273l214117l2l214267l19l19l0l10l10l0l100l648l8.1l9l0&gs_l=serp.3..0l2.211273l214117l2l214267l19l19l0l10l10l0l100l648l8j1l9l0.frgbld.&psj=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=9f78f2bbe0928b38&biw=2144&bih=958" target="_blank">sprouted brown rice</a>, you will get even more of a anti-diabetes boost. Sprouted brown rice has chemicals which actually <a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080728192817.htm" target="_blank">normalize blood sugar</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You don't need to avoid rice. You simply need to avoid refined grains. Whole wheat, whole barley, brown and black rice all reduce the risk of diabetes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Teach your child to love the nutty, flavorful taste of whole grains and you will be giving him the gift of a lower risk of diabetes decades later.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For more tips on teaching your child to love whole grains, see these articles:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For the most recent article on teaching your child to love healthy foods, click <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.tuftshealthletter.com/ShowArticle.aspx?rowId=1049" target="_blank">recent study</a> found that an amazing 28% of adults don't know how to cook!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">25% of people hate cooking because they have to clean up afterwards.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">21% say that they don't have time to cook.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">66% say that grocery shopping is the most time-consuming household task that they have.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Bad News: You Need to Cook In Order For Your Children To Learn To Like Healthy Food</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It will be very difficult for your children to learn to like healthy food without seeing their parents cooking healthy food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unless you're extremely wealthy, you won't be able to afford to buy from restaurants or gourmet delis that serve fresh, healthy food. The inexpensive alternative is fast food restaurants. Fast food restaurants use cheap ingredients with long shelf-lives. They don't use the fresh, healthy foods like vegetables, fruits, fresh herbs, and whole grains which make your child healthy. To disguise their cheap, stale ingredients, fast food restaurants add large amounts of fat, sugar, and salt., which make their foods even more unhealthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even if you manage to buy fresh salads and dishes from a healthy deli like Whole Foods, you still won't be teaching your children to cook. It's a sad young adult who ventures into the world without the least idea of how to cook even simple healthy dishes. Even if your child has learned to like healthy food in her childhood, she will have to resort to cheap fast food or processed packaged food as an adult if she doesn't learn how to cook. Watching parents cook is one of the best ways to learn how to cook.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The Good News: You Can Learn to Like Cooking!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now for the good news. Many confirmed anti-cooks have learned to love cooking. Many people have gone from sickly fast food and ramen eaters to devout watchers of the Food Network. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.jamieoliver.com/" target="_blank">Jaimie Oliver</a> has converted many adults into cooking enthusiasts simply by persuading them to cook a few simple dishes.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The First Step: Figure Out Why You Don't Like Cooking</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first step to learning to like cooking is to figure out what you don't like about it. Take a moment to imagine yourself about to cook something. What emotions do you feel? Are you afraid? Of what? Are you bored? Are you lonely? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What part of cooking do you dislike the most? Chopping? Juggling a million tasks at once? Cleaning up? The ingratitude of your family? Dealing with leftovers? Shopping at the supermarket? Doing it every single day?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Next, think about what you DO like about cooking. People are complex creatures, and everything has good points and bad points. What parts of cooking do you like? Do you feel proud when you cook something tasty? Do you enjoy the creative process? Do you like eating what you've cooked? Do you enjoy taking a moment away from other responsibilities and cares? Do you like cooking with other people? Do you like baking? Stir-frying? Chopping?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now that you've figured out what you don't like about cooking, you can find out what to do about it.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I Don't Like to Cook Because I Don't Know How</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A hundred years ago, children (or at least girls) were taught to cook at their mother's knee. Not knowing how to cook was as unthinkable as not knowing how to dress yourself. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sadly, the last few generations have been raised on fast food and processed food. Even those people whose parents fed them home-cooked meals never learned to cook. Parents didn't bother teaching them, assuming, perhaps, that a few home-ec classes would be sufficient.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Boys, unfortunately, are even less likely to learn how to cook than girls. Many intelligent grown men don't know how to boil an egg.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you don't know how to do something, it isn't fun. And then a vicious circle develops. You don't want to learn because your few attempts were miserable failures. But if you don't practice, you'll never get better.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips for learning how to cook:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Watch TV</b></i> -- The next time you want to have the TV on in the background, choose the Food Network. As you idly look up at the television, you can catch a few techniques on how to chop, boil, or saute. You may even find a dish that looks so delicious that you really want to taste it. And the only way to taste it is…to cook it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Just try it</b></i> - Remind yourself that things become more fascinating the more you know about them. Once you learn how to cook, you can branch out into personal experimentation. If you love garlic, you can add clove after clove to your next spaghetti sauce. If you love the potato casserole that your late grandmother used to make, you can try to recreate it at home. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Enlist support</b></i> - If you have a friend (or spouse!) who is an excellent cook, offer to be their sous chef. Offer to help them if they'll teach you a few tricks. Most people are happy and proud to teach their skills to someone else.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Start out simple</b></i> -- If you've never cooked before, start with scrambling some eggs. Find a recipe (even for the simple things) and master some techniques. Figure out what happens if the heat is too low. Too high? What spatula works the best? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Use good ingredients</b></i> -- A simple recipe can taste delicious if it uses good fresh ingredients. Some fresh green beans from the Farmer's Market will taste delicious, even if all you do is boil them and top them with butter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>Don't be afraid</i></b> -- Some people who don't know how to cook are intimidated by it. Ask yourself "what is the worst that could happen?" You may ruin a dish. No problem -- there are plenty of other days in your life to cook masterpieces!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Don't Like to Cook Because I'm Not Good At It</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This is one of the most frequently mentioned reasons for not liking to cook. Nobody likes to do things they're not good at. If your past experiences with cooking have resulted in soggy stir-fries, burnt eggs, or cookies with the sugar forgotten, you're bound to feel bad about cooking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips for becoming a good cook:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Start with a good recipe</b></i> - Here's a secret: A lot of cooking depends on starting with a good recipe. You'll feel very proud of yourself if you snag a 5-star rated easy recipe off of All Recipes, and your family and friends rave about it for days. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Learn basic skills</b></i> - Another big part of being a good cook is learning some basic skills. A few hours spent in front of the Food Network or a good cooking class can solve this problem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Concentrate</b></i> - The final part of being a good cook is to simply pay attention. If you're a bit scatterbrained (as I am) you may find yourself burning the home-fries while you're chopping the vegetables for the omelet. Remember that you're multi-tasking, and keep part of your mind focused on the dish that you aren't attending to right now.<i><b> </b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Practice</b></i> - Nobody is good at something from the beginning. Keep practicing and you will become better and better. What once seemed mystifying will become something you can do without thinking.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>The more you know, the more you like</b></i> -- Have you ever talked to someone who had a hobby that you knew nothing about? You may have a friend who scrapbooks. You have no interest in scrapbooking...that is, until your friend starts talking about it. You realize that it is art, science, information, and love all tucked together in a book. Talking with an expert makes you realize that there are entire interesting worlds that you know nothing about. And you start to realize what makes the activity so enthralling. This will be true for cooking as well. As you learn more and more, you'll realize all the nuances that you never noticed when you were a cooking novice. You can create your own delicious recipes. The possibilities are endless.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Don't Like To Cook Because I Hate Cleaning Up</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Cleaning is an inevitable part of cooking, but here are some tips to reducing your cleaning time:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Reuse dishes</b></i> -- If food isn't greasy, it often cleans up with a bit of water. You can reuse a plate or bowl for the same person for the rest of the day, as long as there isn't any meat or other bacteria-prone food in it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Teach kids to load the dishwasher</b></i> -- Children can learn to rinse their dishes and put them in the dishwasher. Teenagers can take on the task of dishwashing once a week or so. More enterprising teenagers may be willing to take on the task for a small fee.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Don't Like To Cook Because I Hate Shopping</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you hate shopping, there are options available:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Use a delivery service</b></i> -- Online delivery services, like PeaPod can deliver your groceries. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Share shopping with a spouse</b></i> -- Your spouse may enjoy shopping. Consider trading chores with him or her. You can do something he or she doesn't like in exchange for a relief from grocery shopping.<b> </b></span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Don't Like To Cook Because It Takes Too Long</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Most of us have busy lives. Taking a half hour or more every day to cook dinner can seem impossible. But do you really save that much time eating fast food or processed food? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips for cooking FAST meals:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Learn cooking techniques</b></i> -- Look at a professional chef on the Food Network. They are fast! A good chef can chop an onion in a matter off seconds. You too can learn these quick techniques. Watch cooking shows or take a class and you can greatly speed up chopping, slicing, frying, and other cooking techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Buy some good knives</b></i> -- A set of good knives is expensive, but definitely worth the investment. Chopping not only becomes much faster, but also much more fun. Trying to chop a carrot with a dull knife is hard work and makes you feel like you're not quite doing it right. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Enlist help from the family</b></i> - Teaching children to cook is time-consuming, but once they've learned some skills, you have free labor! Most kids love to cook and they'll feel proud helping you in the kitchen. Spouses can also help. If you don't get enough time with the husband (or wife), try cooking meals together. You can talk about the events of the day as you saute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Buy a crock pot</b></i> -- A crock pot, or slow cooker, is a plug-in pot that cooks at a slow temperature for hours, even all day. All you have to do is to add the ingredients. It cooks itself!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Don't cook!</b></i> -- You can make healthy home-cooked meals without ever heating anything up. Small children, especially, will be happy with a lunch of veggies and dip, fruit, kalamata olives, and square of cheese. It takes no time to put together, and it's way healthier than a McDonald's Happy Meal.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I Don't Like To Cook Because It's Boring</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may find the process of cooking boring. A lot of housework is mundane -- cleaning, vacuuming, doing laundry. Some people see cooking as just one more menial task. This is a pity because cooking can be one of the most enjoyable household chores.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips for making cooking more interesting:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be more creative</b></i> - If you are stuck in a cooking routine of the same old recipes, you might benefit from trying some new ones. Look online for new ones, or try making changes to the old familiar ones. Maybe some added basil will make your boring casserole into a delicious Italian-tasting original.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Be less creative</b></i> - Some people deal with routine by spicing things up (literally, in this case) and making them more fun. Others deal with routine by thinking about something else. Stick with a few favorite recipes until you can make them in your sleep. Then crank up the music and enjoy daydreaming as you go through your kitchen routine.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I Don't Like To Cook Because I Get Lonely</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you close your eyes and think about why you don't like cooking, you may come up with a surprising reason -- you get lonely when you're cooking! Some people may enjoy the solitude that cooking brings, but others may not like spending a half an hour doing something on their own, especially when the entire task is their own responsibility. Did you like baking cookies with friends when you were a teenager, but hate to venture into the kitchen now? If so, you probably find that cooking is lonely. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Our tribal ancestors prepared food together. While they chopped and cooked, they talked, laughed, sang, and helped each other. It turned cooking from a chore into a party. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips for making cooking more social:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br />Get the kids involved</b></i> -- Teach your kids to cook. They will love it, and you won't be so lonely or bored.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Get the spouse involved</b></i> -- Cook meals together with your spouse. You can work on the same dish, or each of you can make something different.<i><b><br /><br />Get a friend involved</b></i> -- If you have a neighborhood friend, you can cook meals together.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />I Like Cooking OK, But Not EVERY SINGLE DAY!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may like cooking, but simply be tired of doing it every day. Some people enjoy the routine of an everyday task, but others feel burdened. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some tips:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br />Trade cooking with your spouse</b></i> - All able-bodied adults in a household should cook! Make sure you and your spouse are both pulling your cooking weight. If your spouse is a kitchen slacker, find out why. Maybe he or she doesn't know how to cook. Perhaps a cooking class would be a good Christmas present. Maybe your spouse assumes that you like cooking. Many married couples naturally gravitate towards separate tasks, not realizing that the other person liked the task at first, but has gotten tired of it over the years. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i><br />Use a friend</i></b> -- If you have a friend or relative in the neighborhood, try helping each other cook. It's almost as easy to make a meal for eight people as it is to make a meal for four people. Take turns cooking dinner for each other's families.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Eat leftovers</b></i> - If your family doesn't mind repetition, cook twice as much food and then serve it again in a day or two. You can make a minor change by adding a new herb or other flavorful ingredient.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>Use the freezer</b></i> - Make twice as much…or four times as much…and freeze the leftovers. If you have a delicious recipe for vegetarian chili, make a huge pot of it and put the rest in containers in the freezer.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />What To Love About Cooking</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Many people love cooking. Here are some things you may find yourself learning to love about cooking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b><br />Nobody can make it like I can</b></i> -- Everyone has different tastes. If you love hazelnuts, you can sprinkle hazelnuts on dishes that nobody else would ever dream of.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>You can eat anything you want</b></i> -- Think back to something delicious you ate years ago. Maybe you thought you would never have a salad nicoise like one you had in the Cayman Island back in the 90s. With a quick search of the internet, you can relive that experience…and have the delicious salad very day if you want it!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>It's creative</b></i> - Once you get a feel for ingredients you can start making your own recipes. It's very rewarding to make a brand new dish that tastes delicious. </span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a parent, you know it's your job to feed your child. If you set a plate of food in front of your child and he doesn't eat, or only eats a few bites, it can make you frightened. Is he getting enough food? What if he starves? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you get scared enough, you may find yourself pressuring your child to eat with any of these techniques:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Feeding him when he's old enough to feed himself</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Following him around with plates of food</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Demanding that he eat all the food on his plate</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bribing him to eat</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Getting angry, or threatening him if he doesn't eat</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pestering him by repeatedly telling him to eat</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Forcing food into his mouth</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children Naturally Don't Eat Much</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children can eat less than half the calories that an adult eats. This may seem alarming to a parent, who wonders how a human being, even a small one, can survive on so little food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unless your child is one of the very rare children who have a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_disorder" target="_blank">feeding disorder</a>, he will eat enough to be healthy. Interestingly, researchers have found that <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calorie_restriction" target="_blank">eating less food</a>, as long as it is healthy, can actually make animals live longer! This is, of course, not a reason to restrict your child's food supply. But you can rest assured that if your child naturally has a light appetite, this may help him live a longer and healthier life, as long as the food he is getting is healthy.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pressuring Destroys Your Child's Natural Appetite</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children are more in touch with their natural appetite than
adults are. Eating when they aren't hungry can feel disgusting or
painful. Respect their natural sense of hunger. If your child can
maintain this natural sense of eating when he's hungry and stopping when
he's not, he will have a powerful weapon against the culture of
recreational eating that he will encounter when he's an adult. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pressuring Children Into Eating May Make Them Eat Less<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researchers conducted <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666306000195" target="_blank">an experiment</a> where they told one group of children to "finish their food" and let another group of children eat as much they wanted. The children who were told to finish their food actually ate <b><i>less</i></b> than the ones who were left alone! They also made more nasty comments about the food.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pressuring Children Into Eating More May Make Them Hate Food</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Adults with food aversions (hating a food) often say that their aversion started when an adult forced them to eat a food they didn't like. Researchers <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666301904829" target="_blank">found</a> that 72% of adults who were forced to eat a food when they were children said that they <b><i>permanently refused</i></b> to eat that food <i><b>for the rest of their lives</b></i>!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you don't let your child get up from the table until he tries his green beans, you may inadvertently create a green bean-hater for life!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some children may rebel against the pressure to eat by refusing to eat anything, or only eating certain foods. It gives them a measure of control against the scary prospect of being forced to eat a food that they are on unfriendly terms with, or of eating more food than their stomachs feel comfortable with.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For Some Children, Pressuring May Work Too Well!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Overweight adults often attribute their weight problem to their childhood, when their well-meaning parents made them clean their plate, or repeatedly asked them if they wanted more food. These experiences taught them to tolerate an overly full stomach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Not all obese adults start out obese. Your skinny kid could become an obese adult if he learns to eat even when he's not hungry.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Short Children Won't Grow Taller If They're Pressured Into Eating More</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some parents of short children think that if their child eats more, they will catch up to their taller friends.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As long as your child is getting enough protein and vitamins/minerals, eating more won't make him grow taller. It will just make him fatter.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Make sure your child is eating some foods that are high in protein, and getting enough zinc, iron, and other minerals and vitamins. Then stop worrying. Your child's height is mostly determined by his genes. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Notice What Triggers You Into Pressuring Your Child to Eat</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As a parent, you naturally feel anxious if your child is doing something that you think is unhealthy, like not eating "enough." Reassure yourself that in all but the rarest of cases, children will eat enough food to survive and be healthy.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Notice the times when you feel tempted to pressure your child to eat. Relax, take a deep breath, smile, and say to yourself "Oh well. His brain knows how much he needs to eat." Then go do something else to distract yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The following behaviors are perfectly normal! Don't get scared into pressuring your child to eat when he does them.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">refusing to eat a meal</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">eating a lot of food for a few weeks, then eating practically nothing for the next few weeks</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">refusing to eat certain foods</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">eating less than a sibling, neighbor kid, or cousin</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">being so excited by toys and people that he doesn't finish his meal</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">To get your child to eat at mealtimes, try these techniques:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Sit down and eat the same food as your child.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children often need to try a food many times before they like it. Feed your child healthy foods for each meal, and be patient in the knowledge that they will probably eventually like them.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child is easily distracted, you can gently call his attention back to his food. Do this only occasionally, so that he does not feel pestered, and only do it when he's first starting his meal, so that he does not eat when he is no longer hungry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't worry or stress out!</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Human beings, small and large, have a paradoxical attitude towards rewards. If you reward your child every time she draws a picture, she will <a href="http://www.spring.org.uk/2009/10/how-rewards-can-backfire-and-reduce-motivation.php" target="_blank">like drawing less</a> than if she gets no reward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's as if your child is thinking "If I have to be rewarded for drawing, it must not be very fun." </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're paid to work, you may work hard because you want the money. But you won't go to work on Saturdays, even if your work is actually very fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of this quirk of human nature, researchers have often concluded that if you reward your child for eating vegetables, it will make her like them less.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">However, <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_119697.html" target="_blank">a recent study</a> has found that rewards may actually work after all. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Using Small Prizes as Rewards May Work</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Researchers divided a group of parents with preschoolers into 3 conditions: </span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The first set of parents gave their children a small sticker whenever they ate a tiny bite of a disliked vegetable</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The second set of parents praised their children whenever they ate a tiny bite of a disliked vegetable</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The third set of parents simply offered their children the vegetable</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The researchers found that rewarding children with a little sticker made them like the vegetable better. They rated the vegetable as tastier than the children in the other two conditions.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Praising children for eating their vegetables didn't do any good at all.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to Reward Your Child for Eating Vegetables</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to reward your child for taking a bite of her vegetables (or any other food she doesn't like), use a small reward like a toy or sticker. Don't praise her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't give your child junk food, like sweets or chips, as a reward for eating vegetables. The "eat your vegetables and then I'll give you some dessert" tactic only makes your child like desserts more. She will think "If I'm getting dessert as a reward, dessert must really be wonderful."</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There Are More Effective Techniques Than Rewards For Getting Your Child to Like Vegetables</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rewards may help your child like vegetables, but there are much more powerful techniques.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Simply serving the vegetable to your child, over and over, is a <a href="http://www.nature.com/ejcn/journal/v57/n2/abs/1601541a.html" target="_blank">much more effective</a> technique than rewards. Before your resort to rewards, make sure you are giving your child healthy food like vegetables, fruits, and whole grains for every meal.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Eating the same food as your child is also an extremely powerful technique. Your child will model you. Eat meals with your child and make sure you are eating the same healthy food that you want your child to eat. She will copy you, and learn to like the food you are eating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">For more techniques to help your child like vegetables, see <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/11/why-children-dont-like-vegetables-and.html" target="_blank">this post</a> and <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/25-ways-to-get-your-child-to-eat.html" target="_blank">this post</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Antioxidants can reduce your child's risk of childhood diseases, including <a href="http://www.nutraingredients.com/Research/Antioxidants-reduce-asthma-risk-in-children" target="_blank">asthma</a>, allergies, and <a href="http://jech.bmj.com/content/57/3/218.short" target="_blank">cancer</a>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can dramatically increase the antioxidant level of your child's diet by making one tiny change -- using high antioxidant grains! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Imagine Jason, a well-meaning parent who gives his daughter Ava a cheese sandwich made with white bread. Now imagine Greg, another parent who makes one small change: he gives his son Dylan the same cheese sandwich using whole wheat and buckwheat bread.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Believe it or not, Dylan ate a lunch that was <i>seven times higher</i> in antioxidants than Ava! Dylan is getting as many antioxidants in that one meal as Ava is getting in <i>two days</i> of refined, processed foods!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whole Grains Are Higher in Antioxidants</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whole grains are always higher in antioxidants than their refined cousins. Whole wheat flour is <a href="http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/3/461.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">three times</a> as high as white flour. Brown rice is <a href="http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/3/461.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">five times</a> as high as white rice. Giving your child whole grains can make a huge difference in the antioxidant level of her diet.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Switching to Whole Grains is Easy</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Making the switch to whole grains is very easy. Amazingly, <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21872702">researchers have found</a> that children often <i>don't even notice</i> when whole grains are served instead of refined grains! And they often rate the whole grain products as <i>just as tasty</i> as the refined grain products! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of the easiest things you can do to increase the antioxidant level of your child's diet is to switch to whole grains.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some Whole Grains Are Higher In Antioxidants Than Others</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In addition to switching to whole grains, you can make a big difference in the antioxidant level of your child's diet by using high-antioxidant whole grains. Some grains are naturally much higher in antioxidants than others.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some <a href="http://jn.nutrition.org/content/132/3/461.full.pdf+html" target="_blank">antioxidant levels</a> in whole grains:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Buckwheat 1.99 </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Barley: 1.09</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Millet: .82</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oats: .59</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rye: .47</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Rice: .36</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As you can see, buckwheat is a super source of antioxidants. Try to fit some buckwheat into your child's diet, in the form of pancakes, muffins, or noodles. You can buy buckwheat flour at a health food store and buckwheat noodles at an Asian grocery store. You can substitute a quarter or so of wheat flour with buckwheat flour in most recipes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814607005584" target="_blank">Quinoa and amaranth</a> are also very high in antioxidants.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some Strains of Grains Are Higher In Antioxidants Than Others</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grains can have different strains. A strain is a different type of grain, like breeds of dogs are different types of dogs.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There can be a huge difference in the antioxidant levels of different strains of grains.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In general, you can remember this rule: <i>The darker the color, the higher the antioxidants</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Black rice is <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0963996911005321" target="_blank">higher in antioxidants</a> than brown rice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Red wheat is <a href="http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/jf052683d" target="_blank">higher in antioxidants</a> than white wheat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some dark-colored grains, like <a href="http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504763_162-20014879-10391704.html" target="_blank">black rice</a> or <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030881460400322X" target="_blank">black and red sorghum</a> are as high in antioxidants as blueberries!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One Small Change for Mom, One Huge Difference For the Kids!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Switching to high-antioxidant whole grains is an easy change to make. You probably already make many dishes with grains -- muffins, pancakes, rice. Simply grab a box of black rice instead of white rice, or a bag of buckwheat flour instead of white flour.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you give your child high-antioxidant whole grains early in her life, she will probably like them for the rest of her life. The food your child eats when she is young will be the food that she likes when she is an adult.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You are helping your child's health now by feeding her high-antioxidant grains. But you are also helping her health thirty years from now when she is an adult, on her own. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recipe Tips</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to use buckwheat flour, you can add up to 1/3 of it as a substitute for whole wheat flour and still get good results in most dishes. Remember that buckwheat has no gluten, so it won't rise as high in yeasted breads. It works better in pancakes and muffins, which are made with baking powder.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Whole grain rice takes twice as long to cook as white rice. However, if you soak the whole grain rice for a few hours (or overnight), the cooking time will be the same as refined white rice.</span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A </span><a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111220154045.htm" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">recent study</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> found something remarkable about babies' taste preferences. Six month old babies who ate salty food like crackers loved the taste of salt </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>years later</i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">! These babies grew to be preschool children who would eat, not just salty food, but plain salt! They happily ate plain salt sprinkled on a plate!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The remarkable thing about this study was that the 6 month old babies weren't given especially salty food. They were given food that many parents think is healthy for their children - crackers, bread, and other starchy snacks. Imagine a well-meaning parent giving her baby whole wheat goldfish crackers and thinking that it is a healthy food, not knowing that she is setting her baby up for a lifetime of salt cravings! Even bread, which people don't think of as a high-salt food, is actually <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_121676.html" target="_blank">fairly high in salt</a> compared to the natural foods that people ate for hundreds of thousands of years.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starchy Food Is a Bad First Food</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starchy foods are bad first foods for several reasons.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starchy foods have very little flavor, so they don't teach babies the flavors of real foods. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Starchy foods in our culture are associated with processed foods. The first flavors your child learns will stick with him the longest. He will be more likely to love these flavors later. If his first foods are starchy, flavorless ones, he'll learn to like the refined flour processed foods that food manufacturers create in their factories.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Now there is another reason not to feed your baby starchy foods. The added salt creates a long term salt craving.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Best First Foods: Meat and Vegetables</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some researchers are <a href="http://content.karger.com/produktedb/produkte.asp?doi=10.1159/0000106371&typ=pdf" target="_blank">recommending meat</a> as a good first food. Meat is high in iron and zinc. Breast milk is low in both of these nutrients, so meat fills the gaps.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vegetables are also a good first food. Teaching your baby the taste of many different vegetables at this early age can make her like them for a lifetime. Vegetables are also extremely nutritious. Your baby will get a lot of vitamins, minerals, and antioxidants. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Fruit may also be a good first food, but there is still a controversy over whether feeding your baby fruit this early will program her to like sweet tastes. If you want to be safe, stick with vegetables for the first few months.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to Make a Healthy Cracker</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Parents like crackers because they're convenient. It's easy to grab a handful of crackers for baby to munch on a car trip to the grocery store.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is nothing wrong with an occasional cracker or piece of bread. But try to make sure it is flavorful (like herb or tomato flavored) and unsalted. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want a healthy cracker, you can make it yourself. Follow these rules:</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't add any salt.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't add any sweetener.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Add other flavors by adding herbs and spices (preferably fresh).</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't taste it yourself! I'm kidding here, but if you do taste it, recognize that your adult palate, warped by years of salty, sugary food, may find the crackers boring. Don't worry - your baby will love them!</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Recipe for Healthy Whole Wheat Herb Crackers </span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These crackers have no salt or sugar. They contain herbs, which teach your baby to like the taste of real food. Herbs are also extremely high in antioxidants.</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">1 cup whole wheat flour (or other whole grain flours)</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />1/2 cup oatmeal, blended until fine in a blender or food processor</span></i><br />
<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />3 tablespoons wheat germ (stored in freezer so it doesn't get rancid)</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><br />3 tablespoons finely chopped fresh herbs (rosemary, basil, dill, oregano, thyme, cilantro, etc.) </span></i><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Mix together the flour, oatmeal, wheat germ, seeds, and herbs.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Add the water and the oil. Mix together or process in a food processor. The dough should come together in a ball. Add more oil and water if it seems too dry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Roll out until as thin as possible on a floured surface. Cut into shapes using a knife or cookie cutter. </span></li>
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bake at 350 degrees for 15 minutes.</span></li>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Teaching Your Child to Love Healthy Food is NOT Intuitive!</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I see a surprising study like this one, which finds that a seemingly healthy food like whole wheat crackers can have huge impacts on children's eating preferences years later, I realize that using a parent's intuition is not enough. Many parents feed their children food that seems healthy, but years later their children are junk food junkies.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only way to really teach your child to love healthy food is to follow the research on how children learn their food preferences. </span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://nutsci.org/2011/06/28/increase-in-number-of-eating-occasions-more-than-increases-in-food-portion-sizes-or-energy-density-per-meal-responsible-for-increased-energy-intake-at-the-population-level/" target="_blank">Recent research</a> has found that a big cause of overeating in adults is <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eating too often.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what is behind adults eating too often? It's a relaxed attitude towards regular mealtimes. It's not necessarily bad to schedule a snack or two between meals. What's dangerous is to <b><i>eat when you feel like it.</i></b> It's dangerous when adults learn to eat whenever they're bored, lonely, frustrated, happy, or when they see a plate of doughnuts at work.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There is a certain freedom in knowing that there is a time for food and a time to stop thinking about food. When it's time for a meal or snack, you can focus on the food. When it's time to do other activities, thoughts of food don't interfere with these activities.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What is Grazing?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Although people have defined grazing in many ways, I'm going to use the word "grazing" to mean eating whenever you feel like it.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grazing Starts in Childhood</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Grazing habits start in childhood. The French, who have much lower levels of obesity, have <a href="http://brightonyourhealth.com/health-tips-infant-child/differences-between-france-and-america-kids-meal-discipline?utm_source=BlogGlue_network&utm_medium=BlogGlue_Plugin" target="_blank">strict times</a> for eating, which they take very seriously. They don't eat "when they feel like it." They eat at mealtimes. And they really enjoy their food, partly because they are hungry for it. Children in France grow up knowing that food is served at certain times of the day.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How to Prevent Grazing</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are some ways to help prevent your child from becoming an adult who has to continually struggle with the desire to eat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>1) <i>Don't Give Your Child Food If He Complains That He's Hungry</i>.</b> Every child (and adult) should be hungry at times during the day. Let hunger build up before meals. Hunger is natural, and teaching a child to be afraid of the hunger sensation by scrambling to give him food will teach him to be an overeater. If you don't feed your child when he asks, he'll soon become distracted with toys or friends and forget his hunger until dinnertime. If a meal is delayed and you feel like your child needs a little food, give him some raw vegetables. They will fill him up without spoiling his appetite. But make snacks like this a rare occurrence.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>2) <i>Have Regular Meals and Snacks at Regular Times</i>.</b> Decide what times work for your family and stick with them. If your child expects breakfast around 7:00, a snack at 10:00, lunch at 12:30, a snack at 3:00, and dinner at 5:00, that's when his stomach will send him hunger signals. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>3) <i>Don't Let Your Child Forage for Food in the Kitchen</i>.</b> You should be the one to give your child food. It is easy for a parents to simply let their children graze in the kitchen. But this will lead to overeating, and to eating unnutritious food. Forbidding your child to get food for himself isn't as strict as it seems. After all, if your spouse grabbed a bowlful of ice cream a half hour before dinner, just because he or she happened to be hungry, you would be justifiably angry that he was ruining his appetite for the delicious spaghetti that you were cooking. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>4) <i>Be a Good Role Model</i>.</b> If you forbid your child from grazing, but then you graze yourself, you will only make him more determined to eat whenever he wants. Be a good role model and avoid grazing yourself. You may even find that you shed a few pounds.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>5) <i>Feed Your Child Snacks, But Not Snack Food</i>.</b> Food manufacturers would have you believe that junky snack foods like granola bars, crackers, cookies, or candy are the only foods you can feed your child between meals. Don't fall for it. You can feed your child fruit, vegetables and dip, 100% whole wheat bread and cheese, or other healthy foods for snacks.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children tend to eat more of a food if they see more of it on their plates. This "super-sizing" has been seen as a bad thing. Fast food restaurants have been blamed for providing huge portions, which cause people to eat more unhealthy food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what if we could turn "super-sizing" on its head? What if we could help our children eat more of a <i>healthy</i> food by super-sizing it?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0002822311015069" target="_blank">recent study</a>
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Give Your Child Super-Sizes of Healthy Foods</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are serving vegetables, fruit, or other healthy foods for dinner, try giving your child a big, adult-sized portion. You may be surprised that she focuses on eating this big portion, rather than the other less healthy items on her plate.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This Technique Only Works If Your Child Already Likes the Food</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child hates spinach, and sees a huge glob of it on her plate, she will not eat more. If anything, she may be repelled by the large pile that takes up half her plate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Start by teaching your child to like the food by using <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-introduce-new-food-so-your-kid.html" target="_blank">these techniques</a>. Once your child likes the food (or at least thinks it's ok), then give her larger portions of it.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Give Your Child Less of the Main Dish and More Fruits and Vegetables <br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_120865.html%20" target="_blank">Another study has found</a> that giving children less of a main dish, like macaroni and cheese, made children eat more of the healthy fruits and vegetables that accompanied it. Give your child a healthy main dish, but make sure it's a child-sized portion. You don't want your child filling up on the main dish and leaving the extra healthy fruits and vegetables untouched.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Doesn't Serving Big Portions of Fruits and Vegetables Waste Food?</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Frugal or environmentally conscious parents might object that giving your child big portions may waste food. Although your child will eat more of the food if the portions are big, she may also leave more on her plate than she would if she were served a child-sized portion.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can finish off your child's extra food yourself. Your child will see you eating it and will be even more convinced that the food is tasty because Dad or Mom is eating it with such enthusiasm. </span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It happens every time. You sit down with your family at a restaurant and the server gives your child a children's menu -- full of games, puzzles, and...yes...junk food!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As unhealthy as many restaurants are, the least healthy food is reserved for the children. Hamburgers, fries, hot dogs, soda, and loads of sweets. Our growing children, who need a <i>greater</i> percentage of vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients to thrive, are served a lower concentration of these valuable chemicals than we, the parents, are!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food on Children's Menus is High in Fat</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The food on children's menus <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1499404608000365" target="_blank">averages almost 50% fat</a>. Ironically, fast food children's menus have a slightly lower percentage of fat than sit down restaurants. But both are loaded with fat.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some fats are fine, and even healthy for children. Olive oil, nuts, and seeds are healthy fats. The fat in children's menus, however, comes mostly from saturated fats (meats, butterfat) or oil from deep frying (which can cause cancer by producing dangerous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acrylamide" target="_blank">acrylamides</a> and other oxidation products).</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food on Children's Menus is Repetitive</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">No matter how exotic and exciting a restaurant is, the children's menu has the same tired set of options. Hamburgers, hot dogs, pizza, and macaroni & cheese.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you wanted to teach your child her multiplication tables, you wouldn't have her study the "two times" equations after she had already learned them. If you want to teach your child to like a wide variety of healthy foods, you shouldn't keep teaching her the "hamburger" lesson over and over again. She isn't learning a thing about the taste of new foods. And giving your child the same foods over and over again can make her into a picky eater.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food on Children's Menus is Overly Sweet</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children's menus usually come with soda or dessert. What calories aren't taken up by fat are taken up by sugar!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Food on Children's Menus Have Very Little Fruits, Vegetables, or Other Healthy Foods</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your child can easily eat half her daily calories in one kid's meal without eating a single fruit, vegetable, or other healthy food. <b> </b>Restaurant owners know that most children haven't learned to like fruits and vegetables, so they omit them from the kid's menu.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Alternatives to the Children's Menu</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>1. Tell your child that kid's menus are for babies.</b></i> Every child wants to be a big kid. When the server hands your child a kid's menu, tell her that these menus are for babies and toddlers who haven't learned how to eat grown-up food yet. She can enjoy the puzzles and the crayons, but can happily choose her food from the adult menu.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>2. Split a meal with your child.</b></i> If the meals are too big, you and your child can decide on a meal that you both like and then split it. Ask the server for a plate for your child.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>3. Eat family style.</b></i> Order a few dishes and then allow everyone to take what they want from the dishes. Your server can bring plates for all of you. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><i><b>4. Take food home.</b> </i> Let your child order a meal off the grown-up menu, and then take the remainder home. She can enjoy another serving a few days later, which will help her become even more familiar with the dish.</span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Obesity in children has been increasing by leaps and bounds in the past few decades. 1/3 of <a href="http://kidshealth.org/parent/general/body/overweight_obesity.html" target="_blank">American children</a> are now overweight or obese. 1/4 of <a href="http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/40832.php" target="_blank">British children</a> are overweight or obese. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Policymakers tell parents to feed their children less and get them to exercise more. This advice is accurate, but leaves many parents shaking their heads and saying "But how exactly do I <b><i>get</i></b> my child to eat less and exercise more?"</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Some well-meaning parents put their overweight children on a diet. But forcing an overweight child to go hungry will backfire. Overweight children often have strong instincts protecting them from famine. Triggering a "famine" by forcing them to diet can make them crave food -- especially high calorie food -- even more. Their brains are now on alert because they have experienced the threat of starvation, and try to protect the children by making them put on more fat stores by eating lots of high calorie food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only permanent solution to obesity is to teach your overweight child to like healthy, low calorie foods that don't cause obesity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Here are 5 little-known tips to help your child make the transition to liking healthy foods.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tip 1: Stop All Junk Food Right Away</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children (and lab animals!) who are given junk food will inevitably choose the junk food over healthy food. Overweight children are especially susceptible to this. If junk food is removed, children (and animals) will actually <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2010/07/switching-from-junk-food-diet-to.html" target="_blank">go hungry for days</a> before eating the healthy food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your child has little or no chance of learning to like healthy food if he is also eating junk food. The healthy food simply won't taste good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Stop buying sweets, chips, fast food, and processed food. Your child will complain for a while, but in a month or two he will adjust to his new diet and like it just as well as he liked the junk food.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tip 2: Give Your Child 5 Servings of Vegetables Per Day<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Vegetables are the lowest in calorie density of all foods. Make sure your child gets 5 servings of vegetables a day. Give him vegetables for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. And make sure they taste good. You can search for highly-rated recipes online.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tip 3: Only Give Your Child Milk, Water, and Herb Teas to Drink</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your child's brain does something astounding when your child drinks. It assumes that all liquid is water! This means that your child's brain <i><b>does not register calories in liquids</b></i>! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child drinks 200 calories per day in soda, it will not decrease his appetite. He will eat as much as if he didn't drink the soda.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This means that he will be taking in 200 extra calories a day!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Scientists have found that <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000282230700435X" target="_blank">soda is one</a> of the biggest predictors of childhood obesity.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Only give your child milk, water, or unsweetened no-calorie drinks like tea. Your child's brain <i>does</i> recognize the calories in milk, perhaps because it is a substance that humans have always drunk. Sugar-sweetened beverages are simply too new in our evolutionary history.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tip 4: Don't Give Your Young Child Choices Around Food</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even a normal weight child will make poor food choices. Overweight children, however, are victims of their brains, which are compelling them to eat large amounts of high calorie food. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't let your child browse in the kitchen. Feed him the same food that you feed the other members of the family. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may experience a month or so of rebellion because your child is used to demanding food at the grocery store or browsing through the refrigerator when he’s at home. If you allow no exceptions, however, your child will accept the new rules within a month or two. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once your child is a teenager, you’ll need to teach him to make wise decisions around food. At this point, give him the responsibility of making food decisions for himself and the family. Allow him to choose the menu for the family dinner, as long as the foods are healthy. Teach him to cook quick, healthy meals full of whole grains, fruits, and vegetables.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tip 5: Feed your child a variety of foods over the long term, but limit variety each day.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Human beings eat more food if there are a variety of dishes spread before them. You probably notice that you eat a lot of food at a buffet, where you can sample many tasty items.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You'll want to teach your child to like many different varieties of healthy foods, so you'll want to give him many different dishes in the long term. But limit the number of foods he eats for meals to two or three.</span><br />
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<i style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Would you like a simple, easy-to-follow program that will teach your child to love healthy food? <b>See my new</b> <b>book </b><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a> on amazon.com.</i><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_119029.html" target="_blank">recent study</a> found that kindergarteners today are much heavier than they were in the 1970s and 1980s.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">There are more obese children and fewer thin children. The average-weight children are fatter than they used to be.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What Seems Normal Is Really Too Fat</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One consequence of this is that parents who have a <i>healthy</i> weight child may think that their child is too thin. We all have a natural tendency to think that what we see as average is good. Since the average weight has gone up, a child who was average 10, 20, or 50 years ago may be seen as too thin today. Adults around him may try to fatten him up by pressuring him to eat more.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Look at Children in Old Movies and TV Shows</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A fun way to notice your own bias is to look at movies and TV shows from the 1940s or 1050s, when people were of a healthier weight.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Really look at the children in these shows. These children look very thin! But they aren't. This is the healthy weight of a normal child.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your Child is Probably Not Too Thin</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With rare exceptions, if you have a thin child, he is probably not unhealthy. If your child eats healthy food, he is probably getting enough nutrients.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child is extremely thin, has lost weight recently, or you think he may have a feeding or eating disorder, check with your doctor. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't Feed Thin Children Junk Food to Fatten Them Up</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Thin children who eat junk food have a double whammy -- they aren't getting as many calories AND those calories don't contain enough vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, and other healthy chemicals. Stick to a healthy diet, filled with whole grains, vegetables, fruits, and other healthy foods.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ignore Weight Charts for Your Thin Child</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Weight charts are <a href="http://www.davidxia.com/2010/06/cdc-updated-growth-charts/" target="_blank">based on current statistics</a>. That means that as children get fatter, what is considered "underweight" will get higher and higher. If your child is in the 10th percentile for today, he may have been average if he had been born 50 years ago.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The only reason to look at weight charts is to make sure that your child isn't losing percentile points. If he is in the 5th percentile and has been there for years, there is no reason to worry.</span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The most effective way to teach your child to love healthy food is also the simplest -- Give your child healthy food and don't give her junk food. Children have an instinct to like food that they're used to. They will learn to like healthy food because it's familiar. And they won't like junk food as much because they aren't used to it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Unfortunately, there is another instinct that children have that makes banning junk food difficult. Children have a perverse desire to like
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you forbid junk food and sweets it may make your child want them even more. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What can a parent do to get out of this dilemma? </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't Keep Junk Food in the House</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you keep junk food in the house, but don't let your child have any, it will make her want the food even more. She will see the package of Milky Ways in the top cupboard but she won't be able to get at them. Her desire for the forbidden Milky Ways will grow and grow. If she finally gets a chance to eat them, she will stuff herself until she is sick.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.ajcn.org/content/69/6/1264.abstract" target="_blank">Scientists have found</a> that showing children a food -- but not letting them have it -- makes them want it more. They will work harder to get the food. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It's Easier to Have No Junk Food in the House Than to Have It Occasionally</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child knows that the top cupboard occasionally has cookies in it, every time she looks at the top cupboard she will think about cookies. It's actually easier to make your house a no-junk-food zone than to cut down on the junk food. Your child simply won't think about sweets and junk food when she's at home. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't Eat Junk Food in Front of Your Child</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child sees you eating doughnuts, but she can't have any, she will <i>really </i>want them. It will kick off her instinct to like forbidden fruit and it will <i>also </i>kick off her instinct to eat what someone else is eating.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you are determined to raise a child who likes healthy food, you'll need to eat the same healthy food yourself. Change begins with the parent. If you have a weakness for rocky road ice cream, hide it in the back of the freezer and eat it after your child goes to bed.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Have a Casual Attitude Towards Junk Food Outside the Home</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">We live in a junk food culture, and when your child goes to friends' houses, buffets, or parties, she will be inundated with junk food.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Let your child occasionally eat junk food when she is at somebody else's home. If you forbid your child to eat birthday cake at a party, you will make it into forbidden fruit. She will also feel like an outsider.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Convey the attitude that junk food and sweets are simply not something that your family buys and brings into the house. Give the impression that your family simply isn't interested in junk food.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your No-Junk-Food Child Might DESIRE Junk Food More, But Not LIKE It More</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child rarely gets sweets or junk food, she may seem to like them more because she gets excited when there are brownies or cupcakes at a party. Her friends are more casual about it because they eat desserts every day.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Don't mistake this excitement for actually liking the dessert more. Since she only has it rarely, even if she doesn't really like it, she will feel cheated if she doesn't grab it when it's there. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Sneaky Trick You Can Use</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You can <a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0195666308001499" target="_blank">take advantage</a> of your child's instinct to be interested in things that are forbidden. You can lure your child into trying turnips, for example, by eating them in front of her and saying "No, these are only for me. You can't have any." She will immediately beg for a turnip. After protesting for a while, you can say "Well, ok." and give her some. </span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Find me on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ChildHealthyFood" target="_blank">Facebook</a> or <a href="https://twitter.com/#%21/Teach_Your_Chld" target="_blank">Twitter</a>. </span></i>Julia Moravcsik, PhDhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14999818284892643625noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5701938693500799779.post-42838196677170019092011-11-18T10:39:00.000-06:002015-05-01T13:23:27.238-05:00Use Tasty or Yucky Facial Expressions to Get Your Child to Like Healthy Foods<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children learn which kinds of food to eat by observing their parents. This is an ancient instinct. In prehistoric times, there were many wild plants that were poisonous. If a child simply ate whatever he found growing on the ground, he would die of poisoning. Children look to adults to find out if a food is edible and tasty or yucky and poisonous.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">You may have discovered this already. If Uncle Jim comes to dinner and refuses to eat his asparagus, this attitude can spread like a cold virus throughout your family. Soon all your children are leaving piles of uneaten asparagus on their plates. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children Look at Yucky and Yummy Facial Expressions</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One way children tell whether an adult likes a food or not is to look at his facial expression. If the adult is relishing his food with a blissful expression, it is probably tasty. If the adult has his upper lip and nose curled up in an expression of disgust, it is probably repulsive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A <a href="http://www.nature.com/oby/journal/v19/n5/full/oby201126a.html" target="_blank">recent study</a> found that young children liked a food better if it was being eaten by someone who had an "mmm...good" smile, and disliked a food if it was being eaten by someone who had a "yucky" disgusted expression. </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Trick to Getting Your Child to Like Healthy Foods</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When your child is eating a healthy food, eat the same food yourself and make a "yummy" expression. Children can see through fake expressions, so really try to enjoy the food yourself and let a natural "yum" expression come to your face. You can say something like "Mmm...this asparagus is really good." to emphasize it and to get your child to look at your face.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Remember, if your child catches on, this technique will backfire. If he thinks he's being manipulated into eating a healthy food, he will think that it's not tasty enough to eat for its own merits. So use this technique sparingly, and try to be genuine in your own appreciation.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A Trick to Getting Your Child NOT to Like Unhealthy Foods</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child is eating a food that isn't healthy, you can express your opinion by putting on a yucky expression while he's eating it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Try to be genuine here as well. It may not be difficult, given the disgusting junk that food manufacturers make for children! When my son poured his Halloween candy out on the counter, there were chewy eyeballs and "fruit" flavored chalky candies that made me cringe with disgust just looking at them! I made a few comments about how disgusting they were and he never ate them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Of course you'll want to respect your child while you're doing this. Sitting in front of a poor kid who's eating an ice cream cone and flashing disgusted faces isn't polite or kind! But occasionally, if there is an unhealthy food that really is pretty disgusting, feel free to let your opinion express itself on your face!</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Be Careful of Picky Eater Friends</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children are very influenced by their friends. If your child eats lunch with a friend who hates vegetables, he may start hating them too.</span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're like many parents, you may try to cook tasty, healthy meals for your child. But you may feel like your own home-cooked meals can't compete with processed junk food -- food made in a factory or a fast food restaurant. Your child picks at the lasagna, salad, and whole wheat garlic bread that you make, and then eats her weight in McDonald's french fries or Doritos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed food is the scourge of the modern world. It can cause <a href="http://www.jstor.org/pss/3697689" target="_blank">obesity</a>, <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/ages-another-reason-to-stop-giving-kids.html" target="_blank">diabetes</a>, <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/ages-another-reason-to-stop-giving-kids.html" target="_blank">heart disease</a>, <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/ages-another-reason-to-stop-giving-kids.html" target="_blank">Alzheimer's</a>, <a href="http://smartparentprogram.blogspot.com/2011/10/junk-food-diet-may-cause-autism-through.html" target="_blank">autism</a>, and even permanently <a href="http://consumerist.com/2011/02/researchers-link-processed-food-to-lower-iqs-in-kids.html" target="_blank">lower the intelligence of your child</a>. Why do children like it so much?</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed Food Comes in Pretty, Fun Packages</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Part of the reason children like processed food is the packaging. Manufacturers will try to win your child's trust and interest by putting your child's favorite cartoon character on the package. They spend millions on commercials that make their food seem exciting and fun.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One of their goals is to get your child to have brand loyalty. Researchers found that <a href="http://archpedi.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/161/8/792" target="_blank">children liked food better if it had McDonald's branding on it</a>, especially if the children watched a lot of TV and saw commercials for McDonald's.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><i><b>What To Do</b></i></u> </span><br />
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<b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Stop the TV commercials.</b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Don't let your child watch TV commercials. Manufacturers don't care about your child -- they are only interested in making money. Commercials are </span><b style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>the</i></b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"> reason why </span><a href="http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/commercials-are-the-culprit-in-tv-obesity-link/" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;" target="_blank">TV causes obesity</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">. There are plenty of alternatives to commercial TV -- PBS, Netflix, pay-per-view, or DVDs rented from the library.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Decorate your food.</b> Try to make your homemade food look pretty and fun. Make faces, animals, or trees with your vegetables and fruit. There are many <a href="http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=play+with+your+food&x=0&y=0" target="_blank">great books</a> that can give you ideas for food art.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>Use Names.</b> Give healthy foods cute names. A recent <a href="http://ecr.sagepub.com/content/9/3/191.short" target="_blank">study found</a> that calling healthy foods names like Emerald Dragon Bites made children like them more.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed Food Tastes the Same -- There Are No Surprises</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One package of Doritos Cool Ranch chips tastes exactly like another. Compare this to carrots. Each carrot tastes slightly different -- one may be sweet, one might be bitter, one might be crisp, one might be soft.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children feel safer if their food tastes exactly the same. Our primitive ancestors used their sense of taste to determine whether food was rotten or spoiled. If a mushroom tasted different from usual, your primitive ancestor quickly spat it out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed food has such a uniform flavor that it teaches children to be afraid of food that has variability. Your child expresses this fear by being picky, and refusing real foods with real variations in taste and texture.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><i><b>What To Do</b></i></u> The less experience your child has with processed food, the more she will like the taste of real foods, and the more accepting of the natural variations that occur in real food. Keep on making those home-cooked meals! </span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Processed Food is High in Fat, Sugar, and Salt</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It will come as no surprise to you that processed food tends to be high in fat, sugar, and salt. Children will immediately like fatty, sweet, and salty food. They have to learn to like the taste of real foods over time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Manufacturers rely on fatty, sweet, and salty tastes partly because it is difficult to make processed food have tasty flavors. The complex, natural flavor of an apple, cantaloupe, or peach will deteriorate if it is exposed to oxygen and light. Most processed foods don't really taste that good -- we <b><i>think</i></b> that they do because they have addictive tastes of fat, sweet, and salt. Close your eyes the next time you eat something out of a package, and think about the flavor -- not whether it's salty, sweet, or crunchy, but the flavor. It is often bland, insipid, or unpleasant. A twinkie really doesn't taste good -- it just has a lot of fat and sugar.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><u><i><b>What To Do</b></i></u> You can capitalize on the fact that manufacturers can't mimic tasty flavors. If you continue to feed your child homemade food, and avoid processed food, then years later your child will think processed, manufactured tastes are yucky. The imitation apple flavor of a lollipop won't compare with a real apple. </span><br />
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By Julia Moravcsik, PhD, author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Love-Healthy-ebook/dp/B00VS30A0S/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1430502150&sr=8-1&keywords=teach+your+child+to+love+healthy+food" target="_blank">Teach Your Child to Love Healthy Food</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hunger makes the pleasure of eating much stronger. Food tastes wonderful!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When your child is hungry, foods that she normally dislikes will taste good. Foods that she is normal neutral about will taste <i>great</i>! If your child didn't eat anything all day, biting into a normally disliked tomato would be a blissful experience.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Children Learn to Like Foods That They Eat When They're Hungry</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Your child will grow to like foods that she eats when she is hungry, because the food tastes especially good.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child always eats chocolate bars when she is hungry, she will grow to love chocolate bars. If your child eats carrot sticks when she is hungry, she will grow to love carrot stocks.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Give Your Child Healthy Foods When She is Hungry</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When your child is hungry, give her foods that you want her to learn to like. Follow up with foods that she is already familiar with, or foods that are less nutritious.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Snacks Should Be Healthy</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Think about what many parents feed their children for snacks, when they are hungry between meals. Cookies, chips, and granola bars! Food companies even market this food as "snack food."</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When parents feed their children sugary, high fat treats when they are hungry at snack time, it trains their brains to love these treats. A hundred years ago, children also occasionally ate treats, like fresh pies, but they were almost always given at the end of the meal as desserts.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Snack time is perfect for teaching your child to like healthy foods like vegetables and fruits, or foods that are new to your child.</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Tips</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Set out an appetizer tray with vegetables and dip while you finish preparing dinner.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Serve dessert last when your child is no longer hungry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you're trying to teach your child to like a food, like broccoli, give it to her when she's hungry.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If your child is a picky eater and you're trying to get her to like more foods, feed her new, unfamiliar foods first.</span></li>
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