Eating breakfast and dinner together as a family: associations with sociodemographic characteristics and implications for diet quality and weight status

The purpose of this 2019 study was to examine the link between household chaos/unmanaged parental stress, and the home food environment (perceived barriers to cooking, healthful home food availability, frequency of family meals). The intention was to gather useful data that would help future interventions promote healthful home food environments. Household chaos was determined by […]

This 2019 study theorizes that child inclusion in meal planning and preparation by their parents may help increase their vegetable consumption. This concept is based on the ‘IKEA effect’, which assumes that individuals like self-created objects more than objects created by someone else. Radtke et al. also investigate whether this relationship between child participation and […]