5 creative ways to trick people into eating healthy
It’s an age-old public health question — how to preserve people’s ability to make their own choices while encouraging them to make good ones.
In the realm of food, it’s something that school administrators, health insurers, and lawmakers have been thinking a lot about in recent years. Some approaches they’ve tried out are dramatic: for instance, banning sodas in school vending machines, or implementing a junk food tax. Others are more subtle. These so-called “nudges” often use positive cues and suggestions rather than rules to try to change behavior.