Children's Eating Habits
Children's eating habits and physical activity patterns have changed over the last 3 decades. The availability of high-fat foods in the children's environment, the positive social environment associated with some nonnutritious foods, and children's predisposition to like these foods are contributing to the increased incidence of childhood obesity (15,16). The media have a powerful influence and have the capacity to persuade children to make poor food choices. Even brief exposures to televised food commercials can influence preschool children's food preferences (17,18).