amily, the children learn to act according to their parents' wills, thus growing passive and insecure (Valtolina & Marta, 1998). These overweight adolescents then turn to food to make them feel better mentally.
             Secondly, the excessive caloric intake in obese children might be the consequences of an eating style (characterized by a fast eating, large bite sizes, and an acceleration of the eating rate toward the end of the meal) brought on by parents (Laessle, Uhl, & Lindel, 2001). It has been found that the presence of parents in an eating situation for overweight children, meant they ate significantly faster, had larger bites and showed an acceleration in eating towards the end of the meal, more so than normal weight children (Laessle et al., 2001). Several studies have demonstrated that the presence of a mother or father changes an adolescents' eating patterns because of loss of self-control in specific situations, namely, when family members are monitoring eating (Laessle et al., 2
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