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Reply to "School Lunch - Can We Talk About Improving Nutrition for Kids?"
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[quote=Anonymous]Kids (and humans in general) are programmed to naturally enjoy sweet and salty flavors and not bitter. It's a survival mechanism of sorts. Repeated exposure to vegetables is the way to develop a taste for them and I mean dozens and dozens or more times trying something before you aquire a taste for it. It's expensive and tiring to keep cooking something and then have it not eaten, but that's what's necessary to change a palate. Were our society to invest in this strategy through the school lunch program, we could "train" millions of children to eat healthy. We served vegetables everyday at home but it wasn't until 2 years of Stokes' food and salad bar everyday he finally started eating salad. And he's particular about it but it's progress. DS is 5. He really only eats carrots and cucumbers for other vegetables but it's a work in progress. [/quote]
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