>>>Shocking development : Kids don't like healthy food. Parents know this and adjust.
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>>Well, not exactly true. My experience as a parent, when teens would hang around at our house, was that if I put out trays of cut fruit and vegetables, everything got eaten (except cauliflower and sometimes canteloupe). Pretty much as much as I gave them, they'd eat.
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>Perhaps your experience is different. To make an apples to apples comparison (hehe), I'd ask what they ate before/after they were at your house? Did you ever offer unhealthy snacks next to the healthy and what were the results?

Yep. I often gave them homemade cookies, as well; they ate those, too. You said "kids don't like healthy food." That wasn't my experience.



>I just posted yesterday about Jamie Oliver's expensive failure with healthy school lunches in LA.
>http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2012/01/19/lausd-students-roundly-reject-healthier-school-lunch-menu/

I haven't seen this way, but ISTR that Oliver had major success somewhere in the US, maybe West Virginia?

The bottom line here is that, as a country, we've made a series of choices that, for the first time, are leading to children's life expectancies being shorter than their parents. This is a serious public health issue, and as a country, we need to address it. School lunches certainly seem like one place to do so, given that we pay for a lot of them.

Tamar

>>>I'd point out that adults exhibit the same behaviour as their kids with an article but I cannot find it right now.
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>>Just read yesterday that if you give people a chance to make a healthier choice, they just might:
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>>http://www.philly.com/philly/health/139233278.html?cmpid=132476848
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>Perhaps they're onto something on a psychological level. However, it runs counter to real world examples.
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>Calorie postings:
>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/06/nyregion/06calories.html
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>>Not exactly analogous, but a good sign.
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>>Tamar