"Overweight children and teenagers may eat more when they have a snack with an overweight friend rather than a thinner peer, a new study suggests.Guess I should have written about this long ago.
In a study of 9- to 15-year-olds, researchers found that all kids, regardless of their weight, tended to eat more when they had the chance to snack with a friend than when they were with a peer they did not know.
But the biggest calorie intakes were seen when an overweight child snacked with an overweight friend.
The findings, reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, highlight the role of friends' influence in how much kids eat -- and, possibly, in their weight control.
It's not surprising that children eat more when they are with friends instead of strangers, according to lead researcher Dr. Sarah-Jean Salvy, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the State University of New York at Buffalo."
Oh, what do you know?
I did.
But the problem is no one will do anything about it, even though many are supposed to, by law.
Bad parents will continue to overfeed their piglets, will continue to let them associate with other piglets and will continue to do everything swinely possible to nutritionally abuse their kids.
That is, no one will do anything unless more of us step up to the plate and go to bat for the kids.
Do what's right.
But the problem is no one will do anything about it, even though many are supposed to, by law.
Bad parents will continue to overfeed their piglets, will continue to let them associate with other piglets and will continue to do everything swinely possible to nutritionally abuse their kids.
That is, no one will do anything unless more of us step up to the plate and go to bat for the kids.
Do what's right.
Help the kids.
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