Reuters – Rob Goodier
“Watching videos of kids eating vegetables may encourage small children to follow suit, a new study suggests. Preschoolers who watched a short video of kids eating bell peppers later ate more of the vegetables themselves, the researchers reported in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. They also presented their findings this month at the annual meeting of the Society of Behavioral Medicine in Washington, D.C. The difference in consumption was not immediate, however. Instead, a week after seeing the video, the children ate about 16 grams of bell pepper (about half an ounce, or a little less than 1/8 of a cup). Kids who hadn’t seen the video only ate about 6 g.”(more)