Get Up And Do Something: Sitting down for a family meal may promote healthier eating

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Sitting down for a family meal may promote healthier eating Dec 21st 2012, 11:19 The family that eats together stays healthy together, according to a new study. Even just sitting down for a meal once or twice a week as a family can increase a child's fruit and vegetable intake close to the recommended five servings a day. "Even if it's just one family meal a week, when children eat together with parents or older siblings they learn about eating. Watching the way their parents or siblings eat and the different types of food they eat is pivotal in creating their own food habits and preferences," Janet Cade, a professor of nutritional epidemiology and public health at the University of Leed's School of Food Science and Nutrition, said in a press release. Cade supervised the study.

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