Metcalfe Jessica Jarick, Leonard Darin
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, United States.
Dream Dinners, Inc, United States.
Physiol Behav. 2018 Jul 1;191:95-99. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2018.04.013. Epub 2018 Apr 12.
Unhealthy dietary intake among American children and adults is of great concern to public health practitioners, nutritional scientists, and child development experts. Cooking skills are related to healthier dietary intake among Americans of all ages, but remain a substantial barrier for many parents who want to serve healthy meals for their families at home. Culinary education interventions are effective solutions for many parents who do not know how to cook, but issues with participation bias mean that these programs are not effective solutions for all individuals. The food industry should develop solutions to help those parents for whom learning cooking skills is not an option - specifically through the development of healthier pre-assembled or prepared foods that do not require cooking skills to make. In the future, the research community should also strive to collect comprehensive population-based data on the state of cooking skills in the United States.
美国儿童和成人不健康的饮食摄入情况，引起了公共卫生从业者、营养科学家和儿童发展专家的高度关注。烹饪技能与各年龄段美国人更健康的饮食摄入有关，但对于许多想在家为家人准备健康膳食的父母来说，仍然是一个很大的障碍。烹饪教育干预措施对于许多不会做饭的父母来说是有效的解决办法，但参与偏差问题意味着这些项目并非对所有人都是有效的解决办法。食品行业应该开发解决方案，帮助那些没有选择学习烹饪技能的父母——具体而言，就是开发更健康的预制或即食食品，这些食品不需要烹饪技能就能制作。未来，研究界也应努力收集关于美国烹饪技能状况的全面的基于人群的数据。
