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Nutrition: So Now You’re What Your Children Eat?
New York Times
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Published: January 9, 2007
Adults who live with children eat more fat, and more saturated fat, than those who do not, according to a new study.
The report, published online last week in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, was based on data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey, a six-year nationwide study of more than 33,000 people carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to background information in the article, the correlation between adults’ and children’s diets has usually been attributed to parental influence. But in the case of fat intake, it may be that children and teenagers, who consume more fat than other age groups, influence the diets of their parents.
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I'd really like to see them do this again, but with sugar (and HFCS, of course) intake.
New York Times
By NICHOLAS BAKALAR
Published: January 9, 2007
Adults who live with children eat more fat, and more saturated fat, than those who do not, according to a new study.
The report, published online last week in The Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, was based on data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Survey, a six-year nationwide study of more than 33,000 people carried out by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
According to background information in the article, the correlation between adults’ and children’s diets has usually been attributed to parental influence. But in the case of fat intake, it may be that children and teenagers, who consume more fat than other age groups, influence the diets of their parents.
( Read more... )
I'd really like to see them do this again, but with sugar (and HFCS, of course) intake.
