Picky eaters

This article reports how some parents respond to kids who are picky about eating by become more strict about eating, which tends to feed into a negative cycle and increase the picky eating: https://www.wifr.com/content/news/Strict-parents-create-picky-eaters-study-suggests-570769301.html

Some tips for parents of picky eaters: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/ever-wondered-about-why-some-kids-are-picky-eaters/2015/11/13/ce89945e-88a9-11e5-be8b-1ae2e4f50f76_story.html    

Kids who are severely selective eaters—about 3 percent of all children—are more than two times as likely to be diagnosed with depression or social anxiety, compared with kids who will eat anything on their plates, according to a study that was published last month in the journal Pediatrics. http://news360.com/article/311463163 http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/early/2015/07/28/peds.2014-2386.abstract