Growing our kids in 'healthy soil': new research on environmental influences on children's food intake.

摘要

If you live in France and you want to make good wine, you will focus on "terroir," the sum of everything in the environment-soil, temperature, rainfall, topography-which affects the growth of your grapes. Obviously, people are a lot more complicated than grapes, but the analogy may be a useful one when we think about the development of the children in our society. Our present generation is growing up unhealthy. Childhood obesity continues to be on the rise, currently at 18% among adolescents [1], possibly leading to a generation of children with shorter lifespans than their parents [2].