Every parent has a different strategy for trying to get his or her kid to eat more vegetables, from growing vegetables together as a family to banning treats until the dinner plate is clean. New research suggests that teaching young children an overarching, conceptual framework for nutrition may do the trick.
Month: March 2015
Why Healthy Eaters Fall for Fries
LAST Tuesday, Connor Moran, a limit-the-red-meat, increase-the-greens, eat-salad-for-lunch kind of guy, stopped into a Bronx Dunkin’ Donuts for his usual black coffee, no sugar, no cream.
He walked out with a sandwich of egg and bacon between two halves of a glazed doughnut.
Such is the puzzle of the food industry: American consumers, even otherwise healthy ones, keep choosing caloric indulgences rather than healthy foods at fast-food restaurants.
From the Mouths of Babes: Toddlers’ Speech Is Far More Advanced Than Previously Thought
The sound of small children chattering away as they learn to talk has always been considered cute — but not particularly sophisticated. However, research by a Newcastle University expert has shown that toddlers’ speech is far more advanced than previously understood.
Cutlery ‘can influence food taste’
Our perception of how food tastes is influenced by cutlery, research suggests.
Too Little Sleep May Trigger the ‘Munchies’ by Raising Levels of an Appetite-Controlling Molecule
June 17, 2013 — Insufficient sleep may contribute to weight gain and obesity by raising levels of a substance in the body that is a natural appetite stimulant, a new study finds. The results were presented today at The Endocrine Society’s 95th Annual Meeting in San Francisco.
Why are those headphone-wearing New Yorkers crawling?
For its latest bit of street theater, “prank collective” Improv Everywhere has participants following the silly prompts of an omnipotent voice delivering commands via MP3 file.
How A ZIP Code Can Tell A Marketer Exactly Who You Are
How is it that a simple five-digit ZIP code provides any insight into who you are?
Save the Movie!
The 2005 screenwriting book that’s taken over Hollywood—and made every movie feel the same.
Why Is the United States So Sick?
The director of a massive new study says: “It’s almost everything.”
Why the Surface RT Failed and the iPad Did Not
At first glance, the Apple iPad and Microsoft Surface RT tablet computer look somewhat similar. But the Surface RT has not sold well. Heres a theory why.