1A: Bad Childhood Eating Environment

1. No vegetables so child grows up thinking veggies are "nasty."
2. Junk is food used to assuage and medicate tantrums, sullen behavior or to reward desired behavior.
3. TV is part of the eating environment.
4. Parents are ignorant about nutrition.
5. Parents provide no eating structure. As a result, the children eat anything at anytime.
6. Children don't eat dinner with their parents.

For research, see Nutrition, SF Gate, and The Paly Voice.