Giving children a taste for vegetables ‘often and early’

Exposing infants to a new vegetable early in life encourages them to eat more of it compared to offering novel vegetables to older children, new research from the University of Leeds suggests.

Of Over 3,000 Kids’ Meal Combinations, Only 12 Seen As Healthy For Preschoolers

Despite promises to improve their marketing, a new study has found that preschoolers now are exposed to 21% more junk food ads on television than seven years ago – older children are being targeted with 34% more than they were in 2003, researchers from Yale’s Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity report…