Discussion:
Importance and Benefits of Family Meals
I need some suggestions on how to address the importance and benefits of families eating together based on two peer-reviewed journal articles on families eating together. Discuss the importance and benefits of family meals. What are barriers to families eating together today? What could be done to support and promote increasing commitment to family meals in your family or a family you know that has children still at home? How might barriers and solutions vary, depending on the ages of the children and other circumstances of a family, including ethnic and cultural factors? What evidence has been identified in the research literature that makes family meals such an important factor in prevention of eating disturbances for children or youth? I need to give examples and support the assertions with current research.