Start planning now to recognize September as National Family Meals Month! Health education research, plus plain common sense, tells us that people eating together at home as a family has multiple benefits, including psychological, social, physical and even financial. Research suggests that teens who eat dinner with their parents regularly develop better relationships with them ,do better in school, and are at lower risk of using drugs, drinking or smoking.1 But according to t

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