Providing food products Lunches cartoon character can be a difficult solution to help children eat. But remember, keep select products with adequate nutrition.
Giving food to children is not easy. Many examples of behavior that looks like a child refusing to eat. For example, do not want to eat, vomit the food back and just like liquid and creamed foods only, difficulty in sucking, swallowing, chewing food, or only like one or several types of foods only. The situation can not be ignored and must be addressed by looking for the cause of feeding problems of children, in addition to providing energy-dense nutrient.
However, a solution may help mothers to make children like to eat. A recent study by the American Dietetic Association shows that children prefer foods with packaging featuring a cartoon character he likes regardless of the flavor and nutrient content in food.
"This proves what we thought all this time that the children will be enjoying a dish of food with a picture of a cartoon character or their favorite superhero in the boxes," says Keri Gans, a spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association and author of the forthcoming book The Small Diet Change page healthday.com quoted as saying.
Gans himself was not involved in the study, whose results will be published in the March issue of the journal main issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine. But the good news, when there is not a cartoon picture on the box of a food product, they will further consider healthy foods that contain sugar instead of high.
"Sales of food that shows the character figures to help children remember and identify a product. They generally have a visual record, "said Sarah Vaala, co-author of a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School for Communications University, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States.
According to him, cartoons that are popular are usually posted in the product box with the nutrients that are less good. Previous studies conducted by Yale University and published last June also reveal the same thing. Food products with images of characters such as Dora the Explorer in the United States would lead the children to choose high-calorie food products, rather than a healthful and nutritious food.
To investigate this, the study's lead author who is also a doctoral candidate at the Annenberg School Matt Lapierre said, researchers look for a sweet cereal products, but not too sweet (only contain 6 to 9 grams of sugar), are not widely available and not advertised on television. After exploring almost all supermarkets in the United States, they finally chose the brand Clifford Crunch, which is only sold at Whole Foods supermarkets.
Clifford Crunch in packaging featuring their own custom character, that character a giant red dog named Clifford who also appeared in books and cartoon shows for children. However, in this research study uses only cereal that does not taste too sweet and packed in cardboard boxes that are created to resemble a new cereal.
Selecting a character for a few packs of cereal "new" design researchers generated a lot of temptation proved to be more severe, but the character of Mumble and Gloria, penguins from the movie Happy Feet, both known by young children and has not been shown on a cereal box. Researchers then one of four different products to the 80 children with an age range 4-6 years.
Two of the four products labeled "sugar content enough" and two were labeled "healthy sugars". One of the products are "branded" the penguin figures show images that are included in the packaging front, and others do not. All products contain from Clifford Crunch cereal.
The researchers note that most kids do like to eat cereal, but they are significantly more like if the box-shaped boxes featuring a cartoon penguin character. They also prefer cereals with the saying "a healthy sugar content" rather than "enough sugar content." This shows that the health messages in food products has been running effectively.
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