Saturday, November 6, 2010

Moving the Unhealthy food is better than Blocking it

Cornell University, exciting investigation it was found that the built-in strategically food school cafeterias is huge on a strategy for the promotion of healthier choices.

Children's Eating Habits and Parental ResponsibilityHealthier, more visible and more "cool" was the idea of a strategy, whose purpose was to improve the school-year-olds children's eating habits behind.

These results are more than six different studies and high school students in the middle of the 11,000 print.
One of the schools, the investigation found sales increased by 100% of the fruit when it is moved to the colorful bowl sales tripled. Salad bar in the cart was placed in front of the cash registers. In other schools in the creation of a rapid "Healthy choice between the two" the checkout line, the buying-in price is calorie dense food, such as chips, desserts and healthy students doubled. Ice cream was the presence of a freezer with closed, shall be deemed to be the top sales, significantly reduced ice cream, chocolate milk taken. Moving behind the plain milk. (I) the quantity of milk increased by regular sales has to say, I like this idea-not only in schools, but the home and offices as well as in the eyes of the Outside really., out-of-mouth strategy is certainly remember commonly applicable. This Research DG ECHO's Brian Wansink 2006 study, which found that employees in the Office ate less toivotunlainen, when they had concealed than clear candy jars to their desks, of the results.And even less when the opaque jars away from their desks. This six-feet were of such a strategy is also much more appealing than the idea of "prohibition" foods.People still have options, just search for them.

Lorraine Kelly's Junk-Free Children's Eating Plan: Change Your Child's Eating Habits in Six Weeks and for LifeI hope that they take to implement such a strategy in schools throughout the nation. [1] [2] it is certainly a very economic way to control the selection of young people towards a healthier. borrow, Chris Wallace, food service Director for Corning, N.Y. School District,

"Is not until someone eats a nutrition. you need food to eat or not eat children-or they eat worse ".


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