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They say you are what you eat, but, at the same time, they also say you are the company you keep. A new study comes to show that eating patterns in children and teens can easily be altered by their friends, which means a heavier peer will make it OK and acceptable for the youngster in question to eat more as well. However, this mostly applies to kids who already have some sort of weight issue, as physorg points out. Researchers have established that, in the case of an overweight teen, the friends s/he surrounds herself/himself with are crucial in terms of whether s/he will be losing any weight in the future. If peers are heavier than normal, then the teen too will start piling on the pounds, simply because it suddenly becomes acceptable for s/he to eat more and inhibitions no longer fit in. Therefore, a solution to tackling the childhood and adolescence obesity would be better “filtering†the friends the child or teen in question keeps. “These results are important,!
considering the role of friends as agents of change in childhood and adolescence. Overweight children are more likely to find food more reinforcing than non-overweight youth. Being in the company of overweight peers may give them the permission to eat more or may decrease their inhibitions, increasing what are seen as...
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