{"id":11319,"date":"2009-08-25T08:39:28","date_gmt":"2009-08-25T13:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=11319"},"modified":"2009-09-28T17:58:21","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T22:58:21","slug":"kids-mimic-their-friends-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/08\/kids-mimic-their-friends-eating-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Mimic Their Friends’ Eating Habits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"kid<\/a>Kids have to deal with tremendous peer pressure. Unfortunately, that also applies to their eating habits. Researchers just released a study that examines how kids eat<\/a> in relation to who they are around at the time. Those involved in the study were 9 to 15 years old. And, researchers found that all of the kids, regardless of their weight, tended to eat more when they snacked with a friend than when they were with someone their age that they did not know.<\/p>\n

But, the peer mimicking went further. Interestingly, the largest calorie intake<\/a> was seen when overweight children snacked with an overweight friend.<\/p>\n

Researchers were not surprised by the fact that kids ate more around friends than strangers. According to Dr. Sarah-Jean Salvy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo, the same holds true with adults.<\/p>\n

Salvy believes that this all-pervading eating pattern in humans is due to the fact that people are more self-conscious around strangers. She referred to friends as “permission givers.”<\/p>\n

The same is seen in teen’s smoking or drinking habits. A teen doesn’t have to overtly tempt a friend to to do either, but there’s an unspoken pressure to be like your friends. The positive in this, Slavy says, is that there could be a domino effect if a certain amount of children and teens are convinced to eat healthier.<\/p>\n

via Yahoo<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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