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Pooling seventeen studies, children who shared three or more family meals a week were twelve per cent less likely to be overweight and thirty-five per cent less likely to show disordered eating.

Amber Hammons and Barbara Fiese, 2011 · meta-analysis of shared family meals and children's nutritional health

Hammons AJ, Fiese BH, Is frequency of shared family meals related to the nutritional health of children and adolescents?, Pediatrics 127(6):e1565-e1574

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Amber Hammons and Barbara Fiese: Pooling seventeen studies, children who shared three or more family meals a week were twelve per cent less likely to be overweight and thirty-five per cent less likely to show disordered eating.