This surprisingly creative trick helps children eat more fruit and veg

Fairy tales that function magical fruit and greens appear to encourage kids to make wholesome meals decisions – with simply 20 minutes of storytelling sufficient to see a distinction.

With childhood weight problems on the rise, Werner Sommer on the Humboldt College of Berlin and his colleagues puzzled if storytelling might encourage more healthy consuming decisions. Kids’s meals preferences have beforehand been linked to their household setting, whereas fairy tale-like narratives have been proven to form childhood behaviour, suggesting this may be doable.