A school-based obesity prevention programme was ineffective

Re:A school-based obesity prevention programme was ineffective by slothtrop on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:13AM (#16821091)

Offer free cooking and nutrition coaching for low-income families. They're the ones with kids most likely to subsist on junk. Presumably if it proves to be effective, the gains will eventually extent to the hold-outs in the middle-class.

I would observe as much at the supermarket on the regular in an area I once lived in, heartbreaking to see.

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Re:A school-based obesity prevention programme was ineffective by Double_a_92 on Thursday April 12, 2018 @10:51AM (#16821504)

They wouldn't go to such a coaching because of ignorancy. Most people are not low-income for no reason...

If they really wanted the internet is full of freely available information.

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Re:A school-based obesity prevention programme was ineffective by slothtrop on Thursday April 12, 2018 @11:30AM (#16821969)

>Most people are not low-income for no reason...

Low-income workers are as such because they're "ignorant"? Uh..

Why this would work is that free delicious food isn't likely to be turned down. I think people are often creatures of habit and feel intimidated by cooking, along with (as you suggest) disinterest. You don't just teach the mechanics and call it a day, they can walk away with a cheap delicious food and see how easy it is to put together. Ultimately also easier on their wallets than a cart full of 2L soda bottles, frozen pizzas and chips.

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