Edulia’s main objective has been “bringing down barriers to healthy eating”. The idea is that we want children (and then later as adolscents and adults) to eat healthy by choice, not because they are told to. Research by our ESRs show that Food familiarity is important to decrease food neophopia and food fuzziness Pickard, A.,…
Draw me your dream meal. Healthy and sustainable, please! by Tija Ragelienė “If they could they would eat candies and snacks for breakfast, lunch and dinner.” This is a thought that many parents and educators might say sometimes about children’s food preferences. But is it really true? Do children truly prefer sweets and candies for…
Eating is More Than Food Only or why Social Context Matters for Your Child’s Healthy Development by Tija Ragelienė Food and eating is an inseparable part of our everyday lives. We need food simply to survive and have energy for our daily activities. However, eating is not just a simple physiological action, but also a…
Project within WP6 (to a lesser extent WP7) Objectives: (1) to investigate the influence of secondary socialisation agents (peers and siblings) and social media marketing on children’s healthy eating behaviour in preadolescents of different family compositions (2) to study when and whether peer and sibling influence is ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ with respect to eating healthily…
Tija Rageliene (ESR9) recently published a paper one how social norms influence preadolescents eating behaviour in BMC public health, below you can read a summary of the paper, for the full paper, please see here Preadolescents’ friendships are more than a social matter for your children’s health When children develop, and approach adolescence age the…
Eating together with friends is not always good for children and adolescents. Eating together with siblings is still an obscure field. Tija Rageliene (ESR9) recently published her first paper in “Appetite” (open access). A summary of the paper is given below Childhood obesity and overweight are rapidly increasing worldwide becoming one of the major public…
In this post, Edulias early stage researchers present 5 tips to make quality food time whilst in quarantine. Here you can find the infographics summarising (pdf) the tips in 8 different languages English Spanish Italian Norwegian [caption id=”attachment_1396″…
Staying at home for an extended period of time can be difficult, and healthy eating can be extra challenging due to the more relaxed “weekend atmosphere”. But worry not, because the Edulia team are here to share TIPS on how to make quality food time whilst in quarantine. The tips are presented in the infographics…
Early morning as always. Some morning routine as always. Some morning exercise, but just on special occasions, a cup of green tea, something to eat for breakfast, and I am on my way to work. The lunch break usually comes sooner than I expect it, and I have to hurry up to catch my “to…
Significant adults in children environment can form children’s food choice and much more. It was a lazy Sunday afternoon. The rain kept playing it’s soft rhythms through my window all day long and seemed didn’t want to stop. “The perfect weather for shopping,” I thought and decided to buy something sweet and tasty to lift…