Use Popular Characters to Nudge Healthy Food Choices! The Cornell Food & Brand Lab found that when Elmo stickers were Here is how to apply these findings to nudge healthy food choices among your kids in school and at • Familiarize yourself with popular characters and icons and ask kids what they would eat. • Make a poster to hang on the refrigerator, in the classroom, or in the school lunchroom that poses the question: “what would (favorite character) eat? • Place stickers of age appropriate heroes and favorite characters on healthy snack foods whether in the fridge or the fruit bowl. Making the healthy snacks more appealing will make kids more likely to select them! • For more low-cost no-cost healthy lunchroom solutions visit extension.org/ healthy_food_choices_in_schools Tips from Healthy Food Choices in Schools’ “Favorite Familiar Faces: How to Use Branding and Priming to Promote Healthy Foods” Kelsey Gatto, Cornell Center for Behavioral Economics in Child Nutrition Programs
Posted on: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 14:11:43 +0000
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