Designing foods that don’t kid kids

In a presentation delivered at the 2000 National Food Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman noted, “One of the biggest Designing foods that don’t kid kids health problems facing Americans in the twenty-first century is obesity, and it starts with our children, one in five of whom are obese . . . not just a few pounds over, but obese. It’s truly epidemic.”

In addition to overeating, children may not always be getting sufficient levels of certain nutrients. Fo…