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Regular family meals help promote girls' healthy eating habits.
2004 DEC 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- It's not only the routine of sitting down to dinner as a family, but the importance, structure, and atmosphere of family meals that may help steer adolescent girls from eating disorders, study results suggest.
University of Minnesota researchers found that girls who ate regular family meals in a structured and positive environment were less likely to exhibit extreme weight control behaviors such as diet pill use, vomiting, and chronic dieting. Their research was published in the November 2004 issue of the Journal of Adolescent Health.
The meal itself provides an opportunity to model healthy eating habits to children, and it also gives parents the chance to check in with their children, said Dianne Neumark-Sztainer, PhD, MPH, RD, professor of epidemiology, and primary author of the article. She recommended parents keep the conversation positive and nonconfrontational, especially if their children have issues surrounding food.
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