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Fun Veggie Names Ups Kid Intake

Scientific American - Posted: September 18th, 2012, 9:28pm EDT

pThe Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act recently went into effect, which requires at least one serving of fruits or veggies on kids#39; school lunch trays. But how do you get the kids to actually eat those veggies? Well, one way seems to be to simply jazz up what theyrsquo;re called. For example, instead of carrots how about offering quot;X-ray vision carrotsquot;? When researchers tried that in five New York elementary schools, kids ate twice as many of Bug Bunnyrsquo;s favorite food./p a href=http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=fun-veggie-names-ups-kid-intake-12-09-18[More]/a

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