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Kids Who Watch Popeye Cartoons Eat More Vegetables
markmark57 writes "Popeye cartoons, tasting parties and junior cooking classes can help increase vegetable intake in kindergarten children, according to new research published in the journal Nutrition & Dietetics. Researchers at Mahidol University in Bangkok found the type and amount of vegetables children ate improved after they took part in a program using multimedia and role models to promote healthy food. Twenty six kindergarten children aged four to five participated in the eight-week study. The researchers recorded the kinds and amounts of fruit and vegetables eaten by the children before and after the program."
Cookie Monster was my fav
Table-ized A.I.
Fight more giant bio-mechanical robots?
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And yet kids who watch violent movies aren't more violent. Weird, eh?
It was wrong.
Watermelon has more iron in it than spinach, and I personally find it far more tasty.
Do they also smoke more pipes?
The children who watched the Popeye cartoons also started smoking pipes and settling disagreements with fistfights. The body image of underweight girls also improved, and they found themselves the preferred objects of affection at Valentine's Day observances and during class parties.
I use irony whenever I can, but my shirts are still wrinkled...
... I first learned the importance of washing behind my ears after an episode of The Dukes of Hazzard. Granted, I was 5 and probably would have learned it anyways... But nonetheless Boss Hogg's Mom was good for something.
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When I was a wee lad, I loved spinach. Why? Because I watched a lot of Popeye cartoons on the marvelous wood-cabineted black and white television set in the living room. It didn't help my spindly forearms much, though.
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Sample Size.
I figured kids ate more burgers because wimpy always had a big plate of them....... http://kerryosborne.oracle-guy.com/files/2009/05/wimpy.jpg
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An 1870 report in Germany listed the iron content of spinach with the decimal place one spot too far to the right, in truth the iron in spinach isn't much different from most other fruits and vegetables.
"Have you ever thought about just turning off the TV, sitting down with your kids, and hitting them?"
Has there been any significant reduction in children dropping anvils on each other since they censored all the violence out of the classic Bugs Bunny cartoons?
Any insufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.
I strong to the finishk, cause I smoked me spinachk...
That Bluto/Brutus guy aught to watch out. Word on the street is, a flock of spinach-crazed tykes is lookin' to punch his lights out... And brother, you don't want to tangle with spinach-enriched ankle-biters.
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"They fights to the finach, cause they eats their spinach..." earning them detention for fighting, an "F" in Works and Plays Well With Others, and mandatory afterschool remedial English lessons. A-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk-kuk!!
Mod Me Up. You'll make a grown man cry.
Weird.
This just in: indoctrination really seems to work.
Of course we don't call it indoctrination if there's no dissent. Everyone agrees that getting children to eat veggies is a Good Thing, so it's not indoctrination, it's something else. What's the difference between indoctrination and learning exactly, again...?
I never understood the reluctance of children and indeed grown ups to eat greens. I think it may be more to do with the method of preparation. I'll admit I was always put off by over boiled cabbage as a kid, but I always loved spinach and most other greens. Mustard greens and water spinach are superlatively good especially if properly cooked. Asparagus too. Perhaps the abominable creamed spinach might be part of the reason for children not liking spinach in particular. Crack open a can of that and see if it doesn't make you gag before you even put it in your mouth!
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what about yams? You know, "I yam what I yam and that's all I yam".
Correlation doesn't imply causation...
Good parents encourage children to watch "good programming" rather than MTV, Spike, etc.
Good parents encourage kids to eat vegetables for dinner.
Bad parents don't care what their children watch.
Bad parents don't care if their kids eat vegetables or chocolate bars for dinner.
Good parenting implies children eating vegetables... not a TV show
Back in the 70s I watched popeye, But all I got out of it was candy cigarettes, and I recall I convinced my parents to get me a corn cob pipe. Think maybe that's why the popularity of that cartoon went down with politically correct movement and the smoking bans?
In the late 60's I would eat a can of spinach myself after school. It was my favorite. I ate it with apple cider vinegar on it. I can only figure it was because of Popeye. In 1977 when I came out of anesthesia from surgery, I sang "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" to those in the room.
Who ever tagged this "!causation" obviously didn't watch Pop Eye growing up. It definitely influenced my vegetable intake. I remember thinking about Pop Eye when sucking up the strength to eat more steamed broccoli.
A proper animation diet is also important, and the Popeyes by Fleisher Studios - the 30s answer to Pixar - put all the other incarnations from then to now to shame. (Famous Studios? Feh!) Case in point: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFNtm18RQGU
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Funny I remember watching Popeye a lot when I was very young but I still hate vegetables. I used to steal all of the Green M&Ms and imagine that they powered me up though. Mmmm.
I now smoke a corn cob pipe and I have physical confrontations with a large hairy adversary. I also feel the need to express my chauvinistic tendencies by saving damsels in distress.
(only one of these things is true)
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Pardon me, while I sit my girlfriend down in front of the entire first season of the HBO series "Hung".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hung_(TV_series)
...and that's all what I yam!
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I feel the urge to eat whale meat. Mmmmmm sweet delicious whale meat, most forbidden of all the meats. Also I want to join a japanese "research" vessel in the far south pacific and fight dirty smelly hippies and run over their boats.
Tsukasa: All I really want, is to be left alone...
IMO, indoctrination really is a loaded term, that implies there's a point behind exposing a child to an influence.
It's not indoctrination unless the program is used for the purpose of changing behaviors and exposure is used as part of that program.
All this study really proves is that kids like their minds stimulated. They need to do something they find potentially unpleasant, and find a way to associate it with something that they consider "uplifting" or positive. We all do this--and good thing, else there'd be no engineers in the world, because none of us would have the discipline to get through all those droning lecturers... ;)
Just because there are Children that access their imagination to identify with Popeye and create a positive alternative to their perdicament, doesn't imply that such children will be used for evil marketting/nefarious purposes, because ultimately as children age they use other reasoning skills besides fantasy and pleasant dreams upon which to base their decisions.
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I watched more p0nr as a kid...
Seriously.
I first started enjoying broccoli and other vegetables via Chinese restaurants which prepared these vegetables with *slightly* sweetened sauces.
If you just boil or steam the fuck out of a vegetable and do nothing else, nobody but a health food nut will like it.
I eat a spinach salad topped with olive oil (oyl) almost every night of the week. So how come my forearms don't look like bowling pins?
Spinach has a lot calcium, but it also has a lot of oxalic acid which binds it up and keeps a human digestive system from absorbing most of it.
Turnip greens as well as mustard greens have a shit load more of calcium and it is much more absorbable, rivaling what you can get drinking cows milk.
If you live near an Asian grocery, Chinese mustard greens taste better and have even more calcium.
While you are at the Asian grocery look for "choy sum" or "chinese flowering cabbage" one cooked cup of this green leafy vegetable has TWICE the absorbable calicum as a cup of cows milk.
What about the real-life movie version with Robbin Williams?
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Hah! I used to use popeye to get my sister to eat her spinach (and other green vegetables)! It was the only reason she'd eat them!
I wonder if it'd still work, she's a teenager now and doesn't eat any bloody vegetables.
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Research shows that kids who watch Popeye turn to violence for solving problems more often. They also prefer slender bitchy brunettes.
one of the things i have noticed is the prevalance of substance abuse ie Whimpy/hamburgers Underdogs secret pill in supposedly childrens programing. there were some real dozies including Mickey mouse peddling amphetamines.
http://www.disinfo.com/2010/06/classic-disney-comics-mickey-mouse-sells-amphetamine-in-africa/ its no wonder america is drug-addiction prone.
I like my food and during my study I've worked in good restaurants as a cook.
Move away from "Making kids eat vegetables". Instead, produce good vegetable dishes your kids will like and want!
If you want your kids to eats food you should stop trying to shove it down their throats. Appetite starts with an enjoyable atmosphere and with food that smells and looks good. And ultimately the food has to taste. So, make an effort and have enjoyable meals with your family. Cooking is one of the basic tasks of mums and dads and it should not be taken lightly. Better still, be proud of your cooking and try and improve on it every day.
Adding a bit of healthy fat -kids and adults need these- to vegetables, seasoning them properly and tasting before dishing mostly does the trick. Try savoy spinach with olive oil, seasoned with anchovies, capers and chilly. Or fried egg plant. Or green beans with olive oil, garlic and salt. Those are welcome breaks from the eternal creamed spinach you buy frozen.
Once your cooking improves you'll have kids liking vegetables better and less arguments at the diner table.
Enjoy!
I hadn't the slightest objection to his spending his time planning massacres for the bourgeoisie... (P.G. Wodehouse)
Twenty six children isn't really a sufficient size for a study group
I watched Popeye as a kid. And when I saw Popeye brand spinach in the store, I *insisted* my mom buy it for me.
That stuff was so awful I've never touched spinach since. And I've never been much of a veggie person in general. Soit really engendered an opposite effect in me. Small sample size and all, but still...yuck.
And I still don't know why everyone is so impressed with Popeye's arm strength. The real strength comes in his being able to chew and swallow that crap so quickly.
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I was a *freak* for vegetables a child. I still enjoy them a lot. Stopping to think about it, though, I distinctly remember wanting to eat more green vegetables after watching Popeye.
It's anecdotal, but I can sort of see this working.
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I don't think that's true.
I can not find any study the confirms that. Please cite a study with a source.
If memory serves, the creator of Popeye choose Spinach for it's vitamin A, not Iron.
I did some digging and turned this up:
http://www.internetjournalofcriminology.com/Sutton_Spinach_Iron_and_Popeye_March_2010.pdf
it even has references and citations! unlike every single reference that claims there was a spinach error.
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Don't be a simpleton.
It's not binary.
Oh, and since I have your attention:
"Correlation doesn't imply Causation"
YES IT DOES. are you really that stupid?
now Correlation doesn't MEAN Causation.
By definition Correlation implies Causation.
Learn your logical fallacies before you spout off next time.
Here is a great start:
http://www.theskepticsguide.org/resources/logicalfallacies.aspx
For the lazy:
Confusing association with causation
This is similar to the post-hoc fallacy in that it assumes cause and effect for two variables simply because they occur together. This fallacy is often used to give a statistical correlation a causal interpretation. For example, during the 1990’s both religious attendance and illegal drug use have been on the rise. It would be a fallacy to conclude that therefore, religious attendance causes illegal drug use. It is also possible that drug use leads to an increase in religious attendance, or that both drug use and religious attendance are increased by a third variable, such as an increase in societal unrest. It is also possible that both variables are independent of one another, and it is mere coincidence that they are both increasing at the same time. This fallacy, however, has a tendency to be abused, or applied inappropriately, to deny all statistical evidence. In fact this constitutes a logical fallacy in itself, the denial of causation. This abuse takes two basic forms. The first is to deny the significance of correlations that are demonstrated with prospective controlled data, such as would be acquired during a clinical experiment. The problem with assuming cause and effect from mere correlation is not that a causal relationship is impossible, it’s just that there are other variables that must be considered and not ruled out a-priori. A controlled trial, however, by its design attempts to control for as many variables as possible in order to maximize the probability that a positive correlation is in fact due to a causation. Further, even with purely epidemiological, or statistical, evidence it is still possible to build a strong scientific case for a specific cause. The way to do this is to look at multiple independent correlations to see if they all point to the same causal relationship. For example, it was observed that cigarette smoking correlates with getting lung cancer. The tobacco industry, invoking the “correlation is not causation” logical fallacy, argued that this did not prove causation. They offered as an alternate explanation “factor x”, a third variable that causes both smoking and lung cancer. But we can make predictions based upon the smoking causes cancer hypothesis. If this is the correct causal relationship, then duration of smoking should correlate with cancer risk, quitting smoking should decrease cancer risk, smoking unfiltered cigarettes should have a higher cancer risk than filtered cigarettes, etc. If all of these correlations turn out to be true, which they are, then we can triangulate to the smoking causes cancer hypothesis as the most likely possible causal relationship and it is not a logical fallacy to conclude from this evidence that smoking probably causes lung cancer.
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