“…The "fast food snacks" pattern, including soft drinks, sweets, cakes, cookies, salted snacks, processed meats, and other high-fat products, also identified in other studies 47,49,50,51 , showed positive and moderate associations in all the target pairs. This finding may indicate the Westernization of eating habits in the family, since this pattern consists of foods that are high in fat, sugar, and salt, reflecting the incorporation of unhealthy habits and customs related to the Western lifestyle 52,53,54,55 , especially in Brazilian families with adolescent children, given that consumption of such foods is more prevalent in this age bracket 48 . This dietary pattern has been associated with an increase in metabolic disorders and weight gain in both adolescence 47,56,57 and adulthood 55,58,59,60,61 .…”