Kids meals at restaurants are not the healthiest these days, you may have noticed. The menu items usually include hot dogs, grilled cheese sandwiches and chicken fingers. And the meal always comes with french fries. So what can you do to instill better eating habits in your children? Eat at home more often! Research from the Journal of Adolescent Health found that the more meals kids eat at home each week, the better their eating habits will be. In addition, they will be less likely as teens to have eating disorders, the journal states. If you eat just 1 to 2 family meals a week, one in five girls will manifest some kind of eating disorder. When the number jumps to three meals a week, one in 10 girls are at risk. Eating at home five times a week or more result in almost no chance of an eating disorder. Of course, we need more statistics on this, but the sample was very large and the results were extreme.

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On a positive note, teens and tweens are working out a lot more these days. According to Fox News, the number of teens going to a health club is up about 25 percent in the past few years. About five million kids are working out routinely at fitness centers. That is great news. Kids not only need to work on their physical fitness, but they also simply need to blow off some steam.