In what scientists might come to call the "prison effect" or "growing up with two older brothers syndrome," a new study
shows that kids who eat in large groups tend to consume more than kids
who eat in small groups. Well, duh? If they don't wolf down the meal,
someone's going to take it!
In essence, the study showed
that kids ate more when they were in a group of nine than when they
were in a group of three, leading researchers to believe that social
arousal, such as noise or activity, led to consuming more food --
although I like to think that feeding one group kale cakes and the
other chocolate-dipped heroin pizza had something to do with it.
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