Skip the Food Fights: 10 Ways to Get Kids to Eat Healthier Natalie Digate Muth, MD, MPH, RD “I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli,” the first President Bush infamously stated at a news conference.  His public denouncement of broccoli set off a firestorm and outrage among parents across the U.S. who had been diligently trying to shovel the vegetable into their children’s mouths.  It’s hard to know if his disdain for broccoli would have been so profound had his mother never made him eat it, but certainly she had no idea that her desire for her son to eat his vegetables would lead to such a public banishing.  Her well-meaning demands to “Eat your vegetables!” backfired.  Parents around the world have tried the same tactic with little lasting success.  Research suggests that if we want our kids to eat healthfully, we have to...

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