Healing Outside The Box

Many of us are familiar with bribes to get us to eat our vegetables when we were kids. It was either "you can have a yummy dessert if you eat your vegetables"... Or "you cannot have a yummy dessert if you don't eat your vegetables". Is either option a good idea if the goal is to improve our intake of vegetables as adults?   Probably not. Today I look into positive and negative incentives to eat healthier and I cite some research studies that suggest both types of incentives can help if designed correctly.  But first, I discuss a bunch of research articles on the benefits of something called sulfuraphane, found in the cabbages and in broccoli. An article listing the benefits and providing just enough explanation can be found here. An example of a positive incentive to eat healthy produce is already in play. It is a USDA program (therefore available in all 50 states) and it's called the "healthy incentives program" or HIP. It is hugely successful in Massachusetts, but this program relies on states to initiate