Loneliness is associated with unhealthful dietary behaviors and physical inactivity among US college students

Sawka et al (2015) produces this systematic review examining the impact of friendship networks (including factors such as friends’ dietary behavior, popularity) on an individual’s dietary behavior among children and adolescents. To be eligible studies had to include participants aged between 6 and 18, to measure the subject’s friendship network as well as habitual dietary […]

Since perceived peer eating norms have been shown to influence dietary behaviour, this 2016 study investigated whether certain personality traits are linked with leading eating habits similar to perceived peer eating habits. One thousand and fifty-six young adults were asked about their perceptions on the level of sugar-sweetened soda (SSS) and sweet pastries (SP) consumed […]