Cooking shows motivate kids to eat healthy food - Telangana Today

Making a picky kid eat healthy food is a hell of a task. However, to make the task easier, a study suggests making kids watch more healthy cooking shows.As per a recent report by CNN, the study published in the ‘Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior shared children with cooking program watching habit come across healthy foods more often. They were over twice as likely to choose healthy snack as children who watched a cooking show featuring unhealthy foods.

“If you promote healthy foods to children, it can be beneficial to improve their intake,” said Dr Frans Folkvord, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the School of Humanities and Digital Science at Tilburg University in the Netherlands.

“For parents, it’s important that they promote healthy foods during day time by different methods, and one of the methods is these cooking programs,” he shared. While conducting the study, researchers interviewed 125 children of 10 to 12 years old to watch 10 minutes of a Dutch TV show designed for children. Some watched a clip featuring healthy foods, while others watched a video featuring less healthy, energy-dense foods.

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