Healthy eating round-up

You are what your friends eat, a systematic review of social network analyses of adolescent eating habits and bodyweight, underlines the importance of school friendships in shaping young people's eating behaviours. It also suggests that social network-based health promotion interventions may play well amongst this group. Well, you don't say ...
Another systematic review considers children's attitudes to obesity, body size, shape and weight, finding that children tend to focus on size, rather than health and also that researchers had rarely engaged effectively with their subjects.
Meanwhile DH has published some new material allied with the eatwell plate, a resource designed to show what a healthy, balanced diet should look like.