Studies show that friendship plays an important role in a kid's eating behavior. The results of the study showed that overweight children who ate with their overweight friends consumed more food than when they were with thinner children or children who weren't their friends. This article discusses these results and offers ways to improve your child's eating habits.

Concepts

obesity

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Additional Tags

1.6.1 identify how one can learn health behaviors from family and friends., eating right

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Classroom Considerations

• Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
• The intended use for this resource is Instructional