Families are increasingly eating fast food instead of home cooked meals, which has negative health impacts. Eating dinner together as a family promotes better nutrition, communication, relationships, learning, and reduces the risk of being overweight or having behavioral problems. However, many families now eat in their cars or loud fast food restaurants. This is problematic as fast food can negatively impact brain development and learning in children. It also increases the risks of health issues like high blood pressure, cholesterol, heart attacks, obesity, and nutritional deficiencies. The document calls for breaking the fast food addiction by returning to home cooked meals to improve health and set a good example for children.
2. Do you know the sweet aroma of a home cooked meal that makes your mouth water? OR Are you so used to the smell of a fast food restaurant that has food covered in grease?
3. F Outcomes of families eating dinner together -better nutrition -better communication -stronger relationships - better learning -less likely to become overweight -less problems with children
10. Think about how this happy meal may affect your child… -Fast food can negatively impact our brain in relation to learning and memory.
11. The health of our body is at risk -large amounts of sodium -increase in blood pressure -high cholesterol -heart attack -heart failure -nutritional deficiencies -HFCS -obesity
