Medical X-Press – Staff Writer
A new study has found that offering children a wide variety and large quantities of snack food encourages them to eat more—and this practice may be contributing to Australia’s weight problem. The research, led by the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute and published in the latest International Journal of Obesity, also found that how snacks are presented (in a large or small container) has little influence on how much children snack.
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2019-07-children-wide-variety-large-quantities.html