One evening, on a school night, when my daughter Mulan was nine, we were eating dinner together at our favourite Thai restaurant.

那是发生在两年前，接女儿从体操学校回来的一个傍晚，我和九岁的女儿穆兰在我们特别喜爱的泰国餐厅吃饭。

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By eating dinner together at the table, parents can teach kids about appropriate portion sizes, healthful food choices and appropriate eating pace, she says.

她说，通过同桌吃饭，父母可以教孩子关于适当的份量、健康的食物选择和合适的吃饭速度。

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For many families, eating dinner together proves to be good and effective way to reduce the risk of youth rates of addiction, and helps to raise healthier children.

在很多家庭，共进晚餐都被证明是降低青年毒品依赖可能性的良好、有效的方式，并有助于儿童健康成长。

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Implementing three healthy family habits--eating dinner together, making sure they get enough sleep, and limiting TV--may help.

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Anderson and her co-author are unable to say with any certainty that eating dinner together more often, getting more sleep, and watching less TV will help any given child lose weight, because of the other factors that may contribute to a child's obesity (or that may protect normal-weight children from becoming obese).

CNN: How to fight childhood obesity in 3 steps