Teens who eat lunch with their parents have a better body image

Experts do not agree on the importance of breakfast in general health, but we now learn that breakfast is perhaps the most important meal of the day: taking a small meal -family breakfast is badociated with a more positive body image in adolescents. Researchers from the University of Missouri published these results last week, which are also published in the journal Social work in public health.

After badyzing standardized survey data from more than 12,600 students in all 50 US states, the researchers concluded that having a regular breakfast during the week was badociated with a positive body image. And regularly having breakfast with a parent was correlated with even higher rates of body image positivity. For those of us who grew up on Eggo waffles crushed by rushing to the door or cereal bars in a backpack, the idea of ​​sitting on a Tuesday morning for a real breakfast sounds elusive and magical, like a unicorn or a shooting star.

"The results of this study suggest that positive interactions with food, such as breakfast and family meals, could be badociated with body image," Ramseyer Winter, Assistant Professor at the School of Social Work from the University of Missouri and MU director. Center for Research and Policy on Body Image, said in a press release.

This is an explanation. But this skeptical journalist also wonders if the households in which people sit for breakfast are not just more stable, better off financially, and more cohesive. If parents have not only the desire, but the time and the financial means to sit with their children during lunch, it certainly looks like a supportive household with the resources to raise confident and well-adjusted children. Be that as it may, this study could serve as a pretext for some families to organize a pancake party on Wednesday morning, provided everyone gets up, gets dressed and packs their bags to go to school.