What does your dinnertime look like?? If it isnt around a table - TopicsExpress



          

What does your dinnertime look like?? If it isnt around a table with the family - you may want to reconsider your evening routine. An analysis of 17 studies of family meals (which were defined in several ways across the studies) suggests that sharing at least three family meals per week offers tangible nutritional health benefits to children and adolescents, including the following: • a 12% reduction in the risk of being overweight; • a 20% decline in the consumption of unhealthful foods; • a 35% decrease in disordered eating, such as bingeing, purging, using diet pills, fasting, and skipping meals; and • a 24% increase in the consumption of healthful foods To read more .. todaysdietitian/newarchives/100713p30.shtml
Posted on: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 02:06:59 +0000

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