Your child refuses to eat

Try to give them the colorful food.

If your child refuses to eat, offer him the colorful foods in different colors, and in some cases, help and imaginatively arranged food.

Psychologists say that children are attracted to a meal consisting of food in six different colors. "What children are considered attractive are often very different from what is appealing to adults. If your child refuses to eat what was in his plate, try to change their approach", say researchers at Cornell University.

Judging by the results of their study, children's meals to stimulate appetite, which are ingredients used in six different colors, and the effect is even better if the food is arranged so that makes some forms, little flower or heart for example.

The study included 23 children and 46 adults, and subjects were shown pictures of plates with different combinations of food.

It turns out that children are more attracted to the combination of foods in different colors, kids a chance to eat everything they served to increase in proportion to the choices they are offered. The study found that children prefer meals composed of foods in six different colors, while the adults rather opt for the "tricolor" meals, transfers, "Daily Mail".

Also, children prefer to have their main meal, meat or fish, for example, are part of the plate closest to them.

"Children not only love to the plate with as many colors, but prefer that their main course 'near', and that contributions form some funny shapes," says Dr. Brian Vonsink who was head of the research team.

Do not serve food to children in the same way as adult family members. Sun of carrots or peas from the heart can be a simple solution for kids who refuse to eat.