Food Rewards for Kids

Food rewards are one way to get kids to eat nutritious foods or a certain amount of food. But is using palatable foods a good way to incentivize children to eat? Researchers have studied their impact on children’s eating, food preferences, and relationship with food and I cover it in this episode.

What You Will Learn

• What constitutes a food reward
• Why they are used
• What is the impact on eating habits
• How do food rewards change food preferences
• How incentivizing with food can lead to overeating
• Why a nutritious diet is at risk when parents use food as reward
• Why other non-food rewards can be beneficial

What I Cover in This Episode

• Examples of food rewards
• Scenarios when they might be used
• How they impact later adult eating behaviors
• How they encourage favorability for palatable foods
• How they can interfere with eating regulation
• How to use non-food rewards

Links I Mentioned in the Show

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Julie Duffy Dillon on The Nourished Child
Food Restriction and Forbidden Foods

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