I’ve been thinking a lot these days about the issue of control in the kitchen. I’ve always been a believer in Ellyn Satter’s philosophy that parents decide the “when, where and what” of meals and snacks, and the kids decide whether and how much to eat. That translates into three meals a day, plus set [...]
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Over the weekend I finished former FDA Commissioner David Kessler’s book, The End of Overeating. Although the book isn’t about “kids and food” per se, I wanted to share some research he cites regarding children and what he calls “conditioned hypereating.” According to Kessler, we’ve known for a long time that infants and preschool children [...]
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A reader wrote in with this report of a mid-morning tennis lesson followed by . . . water? Slices of fresh fruit? Not exactly: Earlier this summer, my children and I were invited by another family to go to a tennis lesson at a health club in town. Since my children had been taking lessons [...]
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Lindsey, a regular Lunch Tray reader and commenter, says her child was recently served this array of foods as a snack at a summer art program: Lindsey writes: My daughter was on such a sugar high! I will most likely not send her again. To her credit, she did tell me what she had, and understood that [...]
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Last year, former FDA Commissioner David Kessler came out with a book in which he posited that the food industry, somewhat like the tobacco industry before it, has perfected the ability to make consumers crave their products through the excessive use of salt, fat and sugar. I haven’t yet gotten around to reading the [...]
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