People use say that we are what we eat,or may be not?
But, who influences our food choices?
The is a clear answer: our family!
Our parents lead by example and their choices have huge impact on our diets/lifestyles!
Here is some related research supporting this view.
Coping with Time Pressure and Stress: Consequences for Families’ Food Consumption
Abstract
This
study explores the coping strategies that families apply when under
time pressure and stress (time stress), and how such strategies affect
food consumption at dinnertime. The data were based on photo
interviewing methodology with a sample of 12 Norwegian children (ages
seven and eight) and their parents. In this case, the children were
asked to take photographs during their dinners at home and while
shopping for groceries with their parents. The findings show that the
most dominant explanation for time stress was the children’s
participation in sport activities. In this regard, the families applied
several coping strategies, such as skipping dinner and eating snacks
instead, consuming convenience food, avoiding preference conflicts,
planning for healthy dinners, involving children and grandparents in
food preparation, and practising compensatory health beliefs and
behaviours. This might be the first study that identifies parents’ use
of compensatory health beliefs to justify children’s diets. More
specifically, the parents stated that the children’s high activity
levels could compensate for unhealthy food consumption. The strategies
that were applied had varying influences on the families’ food
consumption, depending on the parents’ confidence in cooking and
meal-planning skills. It was found that parents with high confidence and
skills were more likely to make healthy cooking a priority.
Consequently, they served more healthy dishes at dinnertime, compared
with other parents. Unlike previous studies, the findings indicate that
children’s active lifestyles might not be directly related to healthy
diets.