Temple's Center for Obesity Research and Education recently received a five year, $3.7 million grant from the USDA's National Institute of Food and Agriculture to fund a project aimed at preventing obesity among low-income pre-schoolers.Without doubt the parents are the problem.
The focus will be to teach mothers simple yet authoritative strategies to promote appropriate food choices and portion sizes to their children. The grant was awarded to Jenifer Orlet Fisher, associate professor of public health and director of CORE's Family Eating Laboratory, and Elena Serrano, associate professor of Human Nutrition, Foods, and Exercise at Virginia Tech.
Without doubt, unless there is a consequence to pay for fattening their kids for the kill, this program will have near-zero effect.
Only accountability has a chance to result in success.
Until then, the nutritional child abuse will continue.
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