Eating together with the family at the dinner table have many benefits. Besides providing good etiquette lessons, it also gives a positive impact on child health.
One study found that adolescents who takes the time to eat together at the dinner table with their families can reduce the risk of eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia. The food served will also tend to be finished. In addition, parents also will slowly reduce smoking.
“Children who are entering adulthood will likely feel uncomfortable being close to their parents. When it comes to eating together, they will occupy themselves on their food,” said researcher Barbara Fiese, according to the Daily Mail.
Child health will be maintained, if parents can bring their children to eat together at the table three times a week. This was stated after a team of researchers reviewed 17 studies of diet and nutrition that involved 200 thousand children and adolescents.
Written in the ‘Journal of Pediatrics’, Barbara Fiese found that the risk of eating disorders will be reduced as much as 35 percent in adolescents who eat at least five times a week with their parents.
Eating disorders include regurgitate food that had been eaten or bulimia, diet pills or laxatives consumption, skipping meals, eating less, and smoking to lose weight.
Even three meals with the family helps reduce the risk of adolescent becoming overweight by 12 percent than those who rarely eat together. They also tend to consume 24 percent more intake of nutritious and have good eating habits than those who do not.
A professor from the University of Illinois said that families who eat together are more connected in communication including the communication of poor and dangerous diet.
“Children and adolescents who have eating disorders will be easily detected by parents so that they will take steps to make their children healthy again, ” she said.
Eating together is also a great time for families to exchange ideas as long as parents do not force or control the flow of conversation. This can cause a good interaction between family members.
Previously, American researchers found that children who do not follow the meal time with their family are more likely to become naughty.
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