The research establishes that family meal routines, such as sharing food, sitting around a table without digital devices or having a pleasant conversation, are beneficial aspects for adolescents and contribute to their health.
In line with other studies it notes that this conviviality, which favours conversation and slower eating, helps adolescents to recognize the feeling of fullness during meals and, indirectly, prevents obesity.
The study, conducted by means of in-depth interviews of families in Catalonia with adolescents from 12 to 16 years old, analyses one of the least studied aspects of the Mediterranean diet: socialization at mealtimes and how the way in which we eat also affects our health.
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Lawmakers again turn their backs on proven benefits of cigarette tax hike
The yearly flirtation with raising the state s cigarette tax has become a lot like “Groundhog Day,” the 1993 Bill Murray comedy in which a TV weatherman lives the same day over and over again.
“An apt description,” Nancy Cripe, executive director of Tobacco Free Allen County, said Wednesday.
Like the titular holiday the film is named for, it s become an annual rite for Indiana lawmakers to file legislation to hike the state s paltry tobacco tax – and watch it fail.
It happened again this week, when Senate Republicans dropped a proposed 50-cent increase in the cigarette tax from the state budget proposal. Unlike the movie, the repeated sameness isn t funny.
Family meals, conviviality, and the Mediterranean diet promote healthy eating among adolescents
Eating together as a family, maintaining the Mediterranean diet s traditional customs of conviviality, influences the eating habits of adolescents and prevents eating behavior disorders, according to a new study prepared by scientists from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) and published in the open access
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.
At a time when lockdown due to the pandemic has revived family meals, this study indicates one of the possible positive aspects of the situation that we have had to confront.
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