taste training

A child’s healthy diet is a parent’s inherent responsibility

Author Karen Le Billon believes in “taste training” — that we should condition children to enjoy healthy foods, rather than those loaded with sugar and fat. She elaborates on this concept in a book entitled Getting to Yum: 7 Secrets For Raising Eager Eaters, where she also examines the impact of junk food advertisements on children and their families — she feels that similar marketing slogans could be applied by parents to entice their children to eat healthy. This is all well and good, but do we really need to use Le Billon’s strategies for a parenting tactic that should…

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