Opinion | Cooking classes for kids don’t lead to healthy eating

Aaron Carroll, a pediatrician, is president and chief executive of AcademyHealth.

I recently attended a meeting where a prominent health expert talked about a program her organization runs that sends medical students into schools to teach kids how to cook, believing that it will lead to better nutrition, less obesity and healthier lifestyles. The audience ate it up. The idea is wholesome, it’s cheap, and you can almost picture the photo that would run with a news story.