Education News – Kristin Decarr
“New research from Ohio State University suggests that young children who eat their vegetables are just as likely to eat junk food…Phyllis Pirie from Ohio State University said that despite a wide-spread belief that encouraging healthy eating lessens eating unhealthy foods, it may not be true, and that efforts to reduce childhood obesity too often focus on adding “good” foods to the daily diet rather than avoiding “bad foods.” While the study does not mean efforts to get children to eat more healthy foods should be done away with, she does say that the argument that good automatically replaces bad has less strength.”(more)