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The Truth About Food

9:00pm - 10:00pm

BBC2 South

3/6 - How To Feed Your Kids

Series in which 500 volunteers and a team of celebrities discover how and why what we eat can change our lives. In a look at what children will and won't eat, Deadringers star Jan Ravens gets first-hand impressions of how to open children's minds and mouths to new foods. The programme discovers how young Isaac broke his broccoli boycott, goes through gastronomic nightmares when Jan's two teenage sons go feral on food, and overturns some myths about what children should eat.

it's really annoying me already.

So the best way to get your kids to eat something they think they don't like is to employ a troupe of stage school kids to tell them they're nice - thats practical.

god what a load of old toss
pure madness

Wankers
Why is it assumed that a subject is only of interest when some celebriddy tackles it??

this is making me so cross I might have to go to bed to avoid it

just watched it... they did a thing about children controlling their own appetites which piqued my interest as i do BLW and it's one of the things that may be linked in with it.

anyway. the experiment to find out if children would stop eating when they were full (think the kids were about 5 or something, can't remember) was set in a summer school.

they gave the children a normal portion of spag bol, the children ate most of their platefuls and declared themselves full. so far so good.

one week later, they repeat the 'experiment', this time doubling the portion size. will the children eat half and leave half?

No, of course they don't, they get fired right in and eat a portion 73% larger than the previous one. QED. children won't control their own appetites. FACT.

hhhmmmmmmmm.
how did they remove the effect of peer pressure from the experiment? or the pressure to please the hugely pleasant dinner ladies by eating loads (that they might not have felt when faced by their parents)? or the desire to get to to their dessert course?

that's some Bad Science, man. FACT. who knows, the conclusion may in fact be correct but they certainly haven't proved it.

it is interesting, though, in the sense that it may follow from that old 'should you praise your child for clearing his or her plate' thread. where is hub these days, by the way?

in a way they used peer pressure. When later in life the children will be persuaded to go against peer pressure (Go on, take a drag, it'll be fine. Go on, just one pill, it'll be fine.)

oh it was hilarious, suew. the 'control' experiment was Jan Raven's son who was taken out for a pub lunch and treated to a steak, chips and onion rings feast. he ate more than usual too... funny that.
repeat the experiment with broccoli and the children in their own homes and i'll be interested.

curious to know if anyone else saw this so am bumping for daytime crew...

I was so annoyed by the party and sugar 'experiment'. Surely if you want to see the effect of the sugar and attribute any consequences to the presence/absence of sugar then you have to make the parties identical in every other way possible.
So, what did they do? - erm, got the children absolutely hyper with an entertainer for the no sugar party and made them sit down and do craft activities for the sugar party.
Not quite a controlled experiemnt really?
It was such a lightweight, scientifically poor programme, totally lacking in substance or information that could be of any use.
I am so disappointed by this whole series. I thought it was such a fantastic opprtunity to get behind the hype and look at the facts for so many food issues, but once again we have a 'Tonight with Trevor' level of inquiry.
Pathetic.

i watched the first five minutes until she started doing impressions then switched off

Right up there w/'The Madness of Modern Families'.

loved her kitchen though

I thought the parties were hilarious - Now then, Lets see - Sleepy mermaids with tinkly underwater meditation music or bounce up, down and into each other banging multicoloured balloons to house music? - Now which ones going to chill them out and which ones going to make them hyper? now, let me think

that window in the kitchen was beautiful, wasn't it?

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I quite fancied the older one.
and before anyone says anything he is 19 OK sao plenty old enough

I liked it when her son got pissed & his mates started singing to camera Wonder how much stick he got in school or work the next day??? lol

anyway it was a terrible programme, really bad.
all of this "oh what a terrible tragedy, he won't eat his avocado"
I mean WHO CARES?
and "children can't regulate their own appetites, if you give them a big plateful and encourage them to eat it, then they will eat more!"
blimey, hold the front page.

Aitch
You know, that window wasn't half as beautiful as that naff pink bannister in 'The Madness of Modern Families'.

Yeah, not like avacado is a basic staple in our daily lives (or at least it isn't here!) Not like every day normal vegetables!

I mean, she only removed one tin of biscuits from the cupboard, so not as if she had a lot of goodies in the house anyway...

was good to see that even after a double helping of spag bol, the kids still had room left for dessert

I enjoyed the programme too. Particularly exploding the sugar = hyper myth. I've always thought that was pure baloney. I'm no fan of sugar (tooth decay and propensity to obesity) but have never bought into the fallacy that it affects children's behaviour.

It affects mine however - too much carb and after an hour or so I get an enery dip and fall asleep

i hate Bad Science. for them to have exploded the sugar myth both parties should have been identical. all they did, really, was prove that the parents thought that sugar made their kids hyper, which they could have told you anyway. Stoopid programme, could have been done so much better.

Her boys were divine though weren't they? Loved the bit where older 2 were arguing and oldest was saying big brothers are always bigger.

Boy number 2 had lovely hair.

I found the experiements quite interesting actually, never thought to question their methods.