What I like about this study is that it doesn’t just reframe healthy eating for adolescents; it recasts adolescent defiance for adults. It depicts teenage rebellion as a potential asset to be cultivated, rather than as a threat to be quashed. He has found that as students work together toward a shared purpose, the impulse to resist authority fades. Mr. Bryan and Mr. Yeager, the authors of the new food study, know they are working against a powerful consumer culture. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“Then the food industry is paying to undermine their own products,” Mr. Bryan said, sounding downright adolescent.

Source: New York Times September 12, 2016 18:56 UTC