Children feeding: Warning for parents

Children's preference for unhealthy foods starts early from home.

Most of the children in pre-school age acquire the taste of salt, sugar and fat at home and learn quickly the names and types of fast food, candy and soft drinks that are approved by the tastes, and may not be healthy for them on the other.

It recommends Bettina Cornwell, marketing professor at the

Faculty of Commerce University of Oregon to Ndquist study provided parents cautious to provide adequate food for their children at home and in restaurants, because the duplication of certain foods constitute the desire of the child in a particular taste.

A team of American researchers asked a group of mothers of 67 children between the years 3 to 5 years for their favorite taste, Kdmn through a long list of foods rich in sugars, fats and salt, then the researchers tested children to prove accuracy Answers mothers.

In a second experiment, the researchers in the search for a relationship between the preferred taste for 108 children in pre-school and their awareness of the different varieties of fast foods and sweetened beverages.

The researchers gave 36 Carta products randomly selected 12 of them for two series of famous fast food restaurants and six to two major cola companies and six of unknown products. And that all children are able to put some products cards in the names of well-known companies which confirms their knowledge of these species and varieties.

The researchers concluded that the children's knowledge of these fast food and soft drinks linked by prefering taste of sugar, salt and fat in these foods.