Cooks As Nutritional Gatekeepers
Gatekeeper research starting in the 1940s suggests that the cooks are also responsible for nutrition. Cooking family dinners can expand the nutritional gatekeeper's influence. Eating family dinner has been associated with healthful dietary patterns, better fruit and vegetable intake, lower intake of fried food and soda. Cooks are not only gatekeepers, but opinion leaders as well.
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“Hell is a place where all the cooks are British.”
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