A productive discussion about how to better teach children about nutrition in a way that maintains their healthy relationship with food. Answered questions about the community can help.

1. Teach Children About Food
Enouraging Kids to Play With Their Food

2. “It may be a basic
thing to teach your
children about food
but it’s very complex”

3. “With childhood obesity epedemic
and eating disorders on the rise,
should children be put on “diets” if
they are overweight? Do you think
that this will negetively effect their
relationship with food or cause
them to be more concerned with
their heath?

4. “In Austria, children
have madatory food
education in school from
the ages of 10-11 and
15-16. The US needs to
adopt this”

5. “Health class in the US
is a joke; it’s taught by
gym coaches. All kids
do is watch movies
and do busy work...”

7. “My sister in-law introduces
new fruits and vegetables
every week to her

8. “A big problem is that
healthy eating is really
expensive. It’s easier
to eat fast food. How
can we change this?

9. “You don’t have
to eat organic to
eat healthy. There
is a little bit of
myth to that...”

10. “I had a teacher who
makde her child
think that fruits and
vegetables were
a treat. It may be
controversial but it
worked”

11. “Some countries
in Europe have
Fat Tax as a way
of discouraging
unhealthy diets and to
offset the economic
costs of obesity.”
Maybe the US should
try this.

12. Better nutrition Community cooking Kids need to spend
education classes could help less time exposed
is needed in parents be more to TV commercials
schools. Kids active in fostering a that push unhealthy
will bring home healthy relationship foods and more time
what they learn with food for everyone in the kitchen
in the home

13. Teach Children About Food
Teach Children About Food
Fall 2011
Digital Design 680
Enouraging Kids to Play With Their Food
Professor Tom Klinkowstein
Mina Widmer