Children appear to be more socially aggressive and disobedient when they have to hold and bite their food than when they can use utensils and chew it.
Ithaca, NY/Cornell University -- Children appear to be more socially aggressive and disobedient when they have to hold and bite their food than when they can use utensils and chew it, say researchers from Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.
Writing in the journal Eating Behaviors, lead author Brian Wansink, professor and director of the Cornell Food and Brand Lab, and colleagues describe how they found kids aged 6-10 were much rowdier when given foods they had to bite with their front teeth, such as corn on the cob, drumsticks and whole apples, than when these foods had been cut up.