Objective. We examined relationships between the presence of television during meals and
children's food consumption patterns to test whether children's overall food consumption
patterns, including foods not normally advertised, vary systematically with the extent to which
television is part of normal mealtime routines. Methods. Ninety-one parent–child pairs from
suburbs adjacent to Washington, DC, recruited via advertisements and word of mouth,
participated. Children were in the fourth, fifth, or sixth grades. Socioeconomic data and …