Family Dinner: More than Just a Meal

Recent research has focused on family meals, specifically dinner, as an opportunity to improve diet and the health of both children and adolescents. Rockett highlights several studies, providing the basic research that has brought family dinner into the forefront of prescriptions for healthy diets o...

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Published inJournal of the American Dietetic Association Vol. 107; no. 9; pp. 1498 - 1501
Main Author Rockett, Helaine R.H., MS, RD, FADA
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Elsevier Inc 01.09.2007
Elsevier Limited
Subjects
Adolescent
Adult
Child
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Diet
Diet - psychology
Diet - standards
Families & family life
Family - psychology
Feeding Behavior - psychology
Female
Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Meals
Obesity - epidemiology
Obesity - etiology
Studies
Television
Weight control
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Summary:Recent research has focused on family meals, specifically dinner, as an opportunity to improve diet and the health of both children and adolescents. Rockett highlights several studies, providing the basic research that has brought family dinner into the forefront of prescriptions for healthy diets of families. She concludes that sitting down to dinner with one's family will help provide a more healthful diet and possibly control the weight of one's family. Family dinner can be a respite from the hectic lives of family members to gather for a meal and can improve the diet of the family and perhaps help keep their weights under control.
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ISSN:0002-8223
2212-2672
1878-3570
2212-2680
DOI:10.1016/j.jada.2007.07.004