Number of Eating Occasions and Source of Foods and Drinks Among Young Children in the United States: NHANES, 2009⁻2014.

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One study reported that there is an increasing trend in the number of meals and snacks (from here on termed eating occasions) consumed in a day among representative samples of US children aged 2–18 years, from three per day in 1977 to five per day in 2006 [ 9 ].

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