Healthy children eat the same as their parents
Healthy young children who eat the same foods as their parents are more likely to have healthier diets than those who don't...
Young children who eat the same foods as their parents are more likely to have healthier diets than those who eat different foods. According to an investigation. Children who rarely or never ate the same food as their parents had the poor diets. Compared to kids who do it.
A study
A researcher at the University of Edinburgh looked at different aspects of the family meals of more than 2,000 five-year-old children. Based on study data until it grows in Scotland. Whether the children ate the same foods as their parents. Or that they have not had the greatest impact on children’s diets. This was the case regardless of family background. In light of the new findings, the paper calls for more attention to be paid to helping parents establish good eating habits in their children’s early years. Other eating habits had much less impact on diet. Among these, not eating a main meal during the day or at regular times, frequent snacking between meals, eating in the living room or bedroom, and an unpleasant environment during mealtimes were all weakly associated with poor diets. Whether children ate with other family members was not significantly associated with children’s dietary quality. The study also found that first-born children had healthier diets than the second or third born. While research found benefits to family meals it also confirmed that meals could be a difficult part of the day. A quarter said family meals are only occasionally enjoyable for everyone. Nearly one in seven (14%) families found that meals were moved. With a fifth reporting they never or rarely had the opportunity to talk during meals. The document recommends that the Government’s guidelines should be simple. It also says that some of the current targets, such as providing up to two grams of salt to children under three, expect parents to monitor nutritional targets in a realistic and impractical way. Valeria Skafida, author of the study and researcher at the University’s Center for Research on Family and Relationships, said: “It is likely that in certain cases, children are eating different foods, with a less nutritious option. This is already known to be the case with children’s menus in restaurants. So children are consuming the same foods as their parents.”
