#childhoodobesity - A brief literature review of the role of social media in body image shaping and eating patterns among children and adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Children's food preferences are closely related to their parents' food preferences and knowledge of food is linked to what their parents share with them. Parents, however, are not the only people who model such behavior. Paradoxically, the ubiquitous technological development can also pose a huge threat. In developed countries, 94% of teenagers use social media platforms such as: Instagram, Snapchat, Facebook, or TikTok, and this also applies to children. It can therefore be argued that parents' nutritional preferences and behavior are related to the same behaviors of children and there is an extensive literature on this subject. It is therefore important to check how other factors - new technology (and social media in particular) - can influence changes in this area. A literature search w

SUBMITTER: Modrzejewska A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9464829 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature