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Hi Swisser!
Thanks for the article.
What was interesting to me was the admittance of so many programs that fail. No surprise there. Even more interesting was this part:

"If the mother is eating Cheetos and white bread, the fetus will be born with those taste buds. If the mother is eating carrots and oatmeal the child will be born with those taste buds," said Dr. Robert Trevino of the Social and Health Research Center in San Antonio.

Most kids learn what tastes good and what tastes nasty by their 10th birthdays.

"If we don't reach a child before they get to puberty, it's going to be very tough, very difficult, to change their eating behavior," said Trevino.

However, I cannot agree with this as accurate believe it or nuts.

My kids had parents eating just that "carrots and oatmeal" yet NEITHER or my own kids has any interest in either - quite the contrary. In fact - even my own kids eat as much bad food as any of the so-called "born into poverty" kids. And both mom and dad DO NOT emulate this whatsoever. Yet, even these two boys prefer junk over anything particularly healthy.

Eating properly takes knowledge (that is believed in and cared about), plus a level of discipline. When one is young, they dont have the previous and I can see the impossibility of the latter (discipline), when the kids are surrounded by fast food, candy, chips, fancy advertising, sodas etc. etc. on a daily basis.

Without THAT problem being solved, I doubt ANYTHING is going to work - as attested to by my very own kids.