Kid Food: The Challenge of Feeding Children in a Highly Processed World.

Food writer Siegel, creator of the blog The Lunch Tray, indicts the food industry for not providing more nutritious meals to American children. The book shines a critical light on numerous practices: advertising that relies on inciting kids' "pester power" to undermine parents; corporate-sponsored science that portrays sugar- and fat-laden snacks as healthy; inadequate funding for school lunch programs; and the common, expectation-forming practice of giving kids tasty but unhealthy snacks multiple times daily. Siegel summarizes the science of forming food preferences in children and dispenses some advice to fellow parents on planning healthier mealtimes. [Extracted from the article]

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