A new study has found that children and teens who eat breakfast during the week are more likely to have a positive body image.
Carried out by researchers at the University of Missouri, the University of Tennessee-Knoxville, and Washburn University, the new large-scale study included 12,642 students across the USA who were asked to record how often they ate breakfast, how often they ate meals with a parent, and their eating habits in general., showed that just over 50% of students reported eating breakfast five days a week, and more than 30% reported eating breakfast less than five times a week.
"We know that developing healthy behaviours in adolescence such as eating breakfast every day and eating family meals can have long-term effects into adulthood," said study author Virginia Ramseyer Winter. "Children and adolescents are under a lot of pressure from social media and pop culture when it comes to physical appearance. Having a healthy relationship with food from eating breakfast and spending meal time with family might have a significant impact on well-being."
"We know that the health behaviors of a parent can have long-term effects on a child," adds Ramseyer Winter."Results of this study suggest that positive interactions with food - such as eating breakfast and having family meals together - could be associated with body image."
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