Your 5-Year-Old Son Has Not Been Eating a Balanced Diet

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Multiple Choice

Your 5-year-old son has not been eating a balanced diet lately even though you provide well-balanced meals for him.You tell him that if he eats all of his vegetables, you will let him have dessert.Although many parents in the United States bribe their children in this manner, what is the likely result?

• A)Children learn to eat a balanced diet.
• B)Children come to associate vegetables with dessert and begin eating quite a bit more vegetables.
• C)Bribing children to eat their vegetables results in children viewing healthy foods as a trial and unhealthy foods as a reward.
• D)Children refuse to eat vegetables unless they get sweet treats before eating vegetables.

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