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Family dinners 'make for healthier kids'
Eating together as a family leads to healthier children who are less likely to be overweight, according to a major review.
By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent
9:00PM BST 23 Apr 2012
Original link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9221261/Family-dinners-make-for-healthier-kids.html
Nutritional scientists have found that children from homes where the family regularly gathers around the dinner table tend to eat more fruit and vegetables than those from homes where mealtimes are not a central focus of the day.
They are also less likely to be overweight or obese, as measured by body mass index (BMI).
Researchers at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, in the US, made their conclusions after analysing results from 68 separate academic studies.
They found those in families that regularly ate together reaped "numerous benefits ... including increased intake of fruits, vegetables, fibre, calcium-rich foods, and vitamins".
In addition, those who ate as a family unit tended to consume less junk food, such as soft drinks and takeaways.
Jennifer Martin-Biggers, a nutritional sciences doctoral student at Rutgers, said: "People who have more frequent family meals tend to have better diets."
Children in such families also tended to do better at school, she said.
The study was based on research into the eating habits of families in the US, where 40 per cent of domestic food budgets are spent on eating out.
In Britain the proportion is less - about 30 per cent - according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
However, Kath Dalmeny, policy director of the Sustain, which campaigns for better school food, believed the conclusions of the research were equally valid in Britain.
She warned that while the sofa was an indispensable piece of furniture in British homes, that was now not always the case for the dining table.
"We are seeing children who are growing up in households that don't even have a table," she said.
Eating together did not in itself make for a healthier family diet, she noted.
But she said parents who went to the effort of having a communal meal were more likely to give their offspring better food, "rather than just shoving something in the microwave and giving it to a child in front of the television".
She continued: "Children who grow up in a culture of enjoying good food and not being treated as if they should have their own, with smiley faces and all that, learn to enjoy food that's good for them."
At home and at school, parents and teachers should aim to make mealtimes sociable and fun, she said.
Although she admitted that getting children to stick to the dinner table was not always easy, especially when they were young, when all the family did eat together it was "a wonderful moment", she said.
Tam Fry, of the National Obesity Forum, said eating together was "hugely important".
"If you talk you don't tend to scoff your food, so you eat less," he said.
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