Getting Your Kids To Eat More Vegetables

摘要

Maybe you're one of thoseIctcky parents whose kids already love vegetables.If you're not, you're among legions of moms, dads, grandparents, and others who know that some of the youngsters in their lives should eat more of these good-for-you foods, but don't.Help may be on the way.And it's coming from a perhaps unlikely source: Your smart phone."We're creating a fun, science-based video game that gives parents of preschoolers a quick, easy way to learn some of the best approaches for getting their kids to eat more veggies," says Tom Baranowski, a psychologist at the Agricultural ResearchService's Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) in Houston, Texas, and a professor of pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine, also in Houston. The college operates the nutrition center in cooperation with ARS.