Study Says Eating Breakfast With Parents Can Linked With Positive Body Image For Teenagers

Study Says Eating Breakfast With Parents Can Linked With Positive Body Image For Teenagers

A family that eat together, stays together, and now, according to a recent study, consistently eating breakfast as a family may also promote positive body image for children and adolescents. The study suggests that parents hoping to raise teenagers with positive body image might simply realize useful tools within the kitchen every morning.

“We apprehend that developing healthy behaviors in adolescence like as eating breakfast every day and eating family meals will have long-term effects into adulthood. Children and adolescents are under a lot of pressure from social media and pop culture when it involves physical appearance. Having a healthy relationship with food from eating breakfast and spending meal time for dinner with family may need a major impact on well-being,” aforementioned Virginia Ramseyer, one in all the lead researchers.

Researchers analyzed data from more than 12,000 students in more than 300 schools in all 50 states and Washington D.C. They looked out at data associated with eating behaviors, as well as the frequency of eating breakfast and eating meals with a parent.

The researchers found that eating breakfast throughout the week more frequently was related to positive body image. Just over half the sample reported eating breakfast five days a week; however, nearly 17 % reported never eating breakfast. More than 30 % reported eating breakfast fewer than 5 times a week. The researchers conjointly found that boys were more likely to eat breakfast than girls.

Additionally, the researchers found that youngsters were way more likely to have a positive body image if they often ate breakfast with a parent.

“We know that the health behaviors of a parent will have long- term effects on a child. Results of this study counsel that positive interactions with food—such as eating breakfast and having family meals together could be associated with body image,” Ramseyer asserted.

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