Evaluating the Associations Between Buying Lunch at School, Eating at Restaurants, and Eating Together as a Family and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents

Khoury, Michael; Manlhiot, Cedric; Gibson, Debbie; Stearne, Karen; Chahal, N.; Dobbin, Stafford; McCrindle, B.W.

doi:10.1016/j.cjca.2015.07.714

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“…Family dinners provide a prime time to observe a child's symptoms and to check in about medication compliance (Fiese, Winter, & Botti, ). Additionally, Canadian researchers found that when teenagers frequently ate dinner with parents they had significantly lower cardiovascular risk factors (Khoury et al., ). These heart healthy benefits may derive from slower, more mindful eating that comes from conversation with another person.…”

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Harnessing the Power of Family Dinners to Create Change in Family Therapy

Fishel

2016

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Family dinner and family therapy confer many similar benefits to family members and they are both settings in which families can connect and interact as a group, in a designated space and time. Over the last 20 years, a large body of research documents the physical, academic, and mental health benefits of family dinners. Research links regular family meals with healthier eating habits and lower obesity rates, lower rates of substance abuse, teen pregnancy, depression, stress, and anxiety, as well as stronger self‐esteem, parent‐child connectedness, resilience, and even better vocabularies. Family therapists can harness these benefits in four ways. First, by asking screening questions of families to determine whether and how often they are sharing meals and then discussing solutions to overcoming common obstacles. Second, by asking about or enacting a family dinner to obtain a snapshot of a family's organisation and functioning, in terms of their gender roles, division of labour, expression of affect and conflict, capacity to have fun, and tolerance of difference. Third, by playing non‐competitive games in therapy that promote conversation, games that can also be played at the dinner table. Fourth, using family dinner as an annex to therapy as a place to experiment with new roles, behaviours, and patterns of communication, which can be enacted on a nightly basis after being discussed in therapy. Two case examples are presented to illustrate the ways that dinner can be a place for change, begun in therapy, and implemented at home.

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Section: Research On Family Dinnersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Harnessing the Power of Family Dinners to Create Change in Family Therapy

Fishel

2016

ANZ J of Family Therapy

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Evaluating the Associations Between Buying Lunch at School, Eating at Restaurants, and Eating Together as a Family and Cardiometabolic Risk in Adolescents

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