The Story of ChopChop

ChopChop is a new food magazine for kids.

The story of how it came to be is at TheAtlantic: Secret Weapon Against Childhood Obesity: A Magazine

Fishy Kids

My 11 month old had her first whitefish recently. I completely support the idea of having kids eat plenty of fish. I've even read that there are old-timers in the nordic countries who attribute their mental acuity in their advanced age to the amount of fish they ate as youngsters

See PhysOrg: Salmon baby food? Babies need omega-3s and a taste for fish, scientist says

This Seems Wrong. And Delicious.

Via The Atlantic: Chocolate Baby Formula: From Cradle to Grave?

Don't Necessarily Blame Sugar

From Yahoo!Green: Food coloring can cause hyperactivity in kids

Read packages and look for questionable food dyes
Here are the specific dyes called out by the FSA and/or CSPI:

* Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Red 40 (both groups)
* Yellow 10, Carmoisine, Red 4 (FSA)
* Blue 1, Blue 2 Green 3, Orange B, Red 3 (CSPI)

Kids Are Programmed To Prefer Sweets

PhysOrg: Liking sweets makes sense for kids

The findings, reported in the journal Physiology & Behavior, suggest that children's heightened liking for sweet taste is related to their high growth rate and that sweet preferences decline as children's physical growth slows and eventually stops.

Imagination And Appetite

MSNBC: Making veggies cool for kids - Study: Children ate twice as many veggies if they were given a funny name

Nagging Your Kids About Food: You May Be Able To Affect Quality But Not Quantity

See EconLog: Food and the Family: Weighing the Power of Culinary Nagging

Nature can account for all of the family resembance in the Body Mass Index; nurture doesn't matter at all