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Supersized portions lead to unhealthy food relationships in children

Fri. Oct 10, 2008

Insisting that children clean their plate at meal time may lead to overeating and other unhealthy relationships with food say researchers from the Center for Obesity Research and Education at Temple University.

Children assume that the quantity of food provided at meal time is the amount they should eat. When larger portions are provided, children eat more and use portion size and other environmental cues to help them decide when they have had enough.

Jennifer Fisher, Ph.D., theorizes that having large amounts of food available conveys a social expectation about portion size that condones larger self-served portions. Fisher and other researchers are exploring different avenues to determine the association between the amount of food children are served and the amount they actually eating.

"Our goal is to try to identify ways to promote healthful choices from an early age," says Fisher. "We want children to grow up with good eating habits, and without having to struggle with food issues into adulthood."

Observing children's eating behavior when confronted with differing portion sizes and even different sized eating utensils, may lead researchers to pinpoint some of the factors determining how eating patterns develop, which could help stave off unhealthy relationships with food later on in life.

SOURCE: Obesity

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Parental love is blind

Tue. Oct 07, 2008

As parents, most of us tend to view our children as perfect in every way. We overlook behavioral and physical issues in our children that others have little difficulty seeing.  The extent to which parents are oblivious to apparently obvious issues with their children may pose a health risk according to Rona L. Levy, Ph.D. from the University of Washington in Seattle.

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Preventing bone weakening during rapid weight loss

Fri. Sep 26, 2008

Scientists at Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, suggest that calorie restriction alone does not cause bone loss and that careful assessment of skeletal health combined with appropriate nutrition allows for significant weight loss without bone weakening.

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