Growing Chefs! Ontario: Study underscores need for food literacy, national school food program
Study underscores need for food literacy, national school food programWestern’s HEAL survey shows kids with higher food knowledge likely to eat more fruit, vegetables
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“Children have been told, “Eat your fruits and vegetables” throughout generations. But a new study out of Western’s Human Environment’s Analysis Laboratory (HEAL) shows knowledge ─ not nagging ─ could be the missing ingredient in getting kids to up their intake of these nutrient-dense foods.
The survey-based study is one of many projects related to children’s health and well-being, conducted as part of HEAL’s larger mission to mobilize knowledge to create healthy, thriving communities.”
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