Effect of Longer Family Meals on Children's Fruit and Vegetable Intake: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Family meals are a formative learning environment that shapes children's food choices and preferences. As such, they are an ideal setting for efforts to improve children's nutritional health.

Objective: To examine the effect of extending the duration of family meals on the fruit and vegetable intake in children.

Happy and healthy: How family mealtime routines relate to child nutritional health.

Children eat most of their meals in a family context, making family meals a key environment in which to learn about healthy food. What makes a family meal "healthy"? This diary study examined the practice of seven family mealtime routines (e.g.

Quality matters: A meta-analysis on components of healthy family meals.

Objective: A greater frequency of family meals is associated with better diet quality and lower body mass index (BMI) in children. However, the effect sizes are small, and it remains unclear which qualitative components of family meals contribute to these positive health outcomes. This meta-analysis synthesizes studies on social, environmental, and behavioral attributes of family meals and identifies components of family meals that are related to better nutritional health in children.

Parents' considerable underestimation of sugar and their child's risk of overweight.

High sugar intake is associated with an increased risk of overweight. For parents, as their children's nutritional gatekeepers, knowledge about sugar is a prerequisite for regulating sugar consumption. Yet little is known about parental ability to estimate the sugar content of foods and beverages and how this ability is associated with children's body mass index (BMI).

Social nature of eating could explain missing link between food insecurity and childhood obesity.

We suggest that social factors are key to explain the missing link between food insecurity and obesity in children. Parents and public institutions are children's nutritional gatekeepers. They protect children from food insecurity by trimming down their consumption or by institutional support.

Autobiographical Memory in Bipolar Disorder and Its Link to Neuropsychological Functioning.

Objective: The aim of this study was to examine the specificity of autobiographical memory (AM) in bipolar disorder (BD) and to investigate the association between AM and neuropsychological functions.

Method: Twenty bipolar patients and 22 matched healthy controls (HCs) were included in this study. AM was assessed with an extended version of the Autobiographical Memory Test (AMT) including rejection cue words.

Lower parental numeracy is associated with children being under- and overweight.

Background: In adults, lower numeracy is associated with poorer nutrition label comprehension and higher BMI. It remains unclear whether parental numeracy also impacts children's body weight.

Purpose: We examined the relationship between parental numeracy and children's BMI z-scores and analyzed whether weight-related numerical information processing skills-specifically, portion-size estimation skills, comprehension of nutrition labels, and comprehension of growth charts-mediated that relationship.