Teach Children About FoodTeach Children About Food

Enouraging Kids to Play With Their Food

“It may be a basic thing to teach your children about food but it’s very complex”

“With childhood obesity epedemic and eating disorders on the rise, should children be put on “diets” if they are overweight? Do you think that this will negetively effect their relationship with food or cause them to be more concerned with their heath?

“In Austria, children have madatory food education in school from the ages of 10-11 and 15-16. The US needs to adopt this”

“Health class in the US is a joke; it’s taught by gym coaches. All kids do is watch movies and do busy work...”

“My sister in-law introduces new fruits and vegetables every week to her

“A big problem is that healthy eating is really expensive. It’s easier to eat fast food. How can we change this?

“You don’t have to eat organic to eat healthy. There is a little bit of myth to that...”

“I had a teacher who makde her child think that fruits and vegetables were a treat. It may be controversial but it worked”

“Some countries in Europe have Fat Tax as a way of discouraging unhealthy diets and to offset the economic costs of obesity.” Maybe the US should try this.

Better nutrition education is needed in schools. Kids will bring home what they learn

Community cooking classes could help parents be more active in fostering a healthy relationship with food for everyone in the home

Kids need to spend less time exposed to TV commercials that push unhealthy foods and more time in the kitchen

Teach Children About Food Teach Children About Food

Enouraging Kids to Play With Their Food

Mina WidmerProfessor Tom Klinkowstein

Digital Design 680Fall 2011