Use of the Revised Children’s Diet Quality Index to assess preschooler’s diet quality, its sociodemographic predictors, and its association with body weight status

Kranz, Sibylle; Findeis, Jill L.; Shrestha, Sundar S.

doi:10.2223/jped.1745

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“…This is an artifact of the CPES study design including convenient samples of families from university communities in the metropolitan Seattle and Atlanta areas (Lu et al, 2008a, b). Demographic factors, such as household income and ethnicity, have been shown to be associated with food choices among US children (Xie et al, 2003;Kranz et al, 2008), and if we had analyzed demographic group(s) separately, we may have reached different conclusions. To explore the effects of income further, we conducted weighted regressions of annual household income on percent eaters among the NHANES 2003-2004 children aged 3-11 years.…”

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Comparison of food consumption frequencies among NHANES and CPES children: Implications for dietary pesticide exposure and risk assessment

Riederer

Pearson

2009

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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Exposure Study (CPES) to illustrate the magnitude of potential error introduced by using national-scale, cross-sectional data to estimate the consumption frequencies for smaller cohorts. We focused on foods commonly consumed by children in the target CPES age and income group (3-11 years; annual household income 4$75,000) and foods likely to contain organophosphorus or pyrethroid pesticide residues. We defined ''percent eaters'' as the percentage of study participants who reported eating a particular food in a 24-h period. We computed the weighted percent eaters and 95% confidence limits (CL) for the target age/income group using the NHANES 24-h dietary recall data and compared these with the CPES percent eaters by sampling day and season. For certain foods, particularly the seasonally available produce (for example, apples, peaches/nectarines, melon, grapes, pears, strawberries), soy milk, and peanut butter, the CPES percent eaters fell outside the NHANES 95% CLs on many sampling days. For other foods (for example, orange juice and cow's milk), differences were not readily apparent. Although the differences we observed for certain foods may be, in part, because of measurement error, they also likely reflect seasonal and geographic patterns among the CPES data that the public release NHANES data do not capture. Using NHANES data to estimate pesticide intakes from strawberries, for example, may underestimate the exposure of the CPES children, as significantly more CPES than NHANES children ate strawberries on many sampling days. For other sampling days or other foods, overestimation is also possible.

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Comparison of food consumption frequencies among NHANES and CPES children: Implications for dietary pesticide exposure and risk assessment

Riederer

Pearson

2009

J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol

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“…Tendo em vista que os hábitos alimentares são formados desde cedo, fica nítida a dificuldade de se estabelecer mudanças, principalmente com crianças mais velhas, que já terão se tornado comedoras independentes, escolhendo seus próprios alimentos para o lanche escolar 21 . Entretanto, a aplicação de programas contínuos de educação nutricional desde a infância parece ser a melhor maneira de se tentar reverter o quadro de consumo alimentar inadequado 22 .…”

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Evaluating the effect of nutritional education on the prevalence of overweight/obesity and on foods eaten at primary schools

Fernandes¹,

Bernardo²,

Campos³

et al. 2009

J Pediatr (Rio J)

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Objective: To assess the effects of a nutritional education program on the prevalence of overweight/obesity and on the foods eaten by schoolchildren in the 2nd grade of primary education. Methods:The sample was made up of 135 schoolchildren, recruited from one private and one public school in Florianópolis, Brazil, and allocated to either an intervention group (n = 55) or a no-intervention group (n = 80). The children underwent two anthropometric assessments and two dietary intake assessments, before and after attending a nutritional education program. The program consisted of eight fortnightly meetings and covered subjects related to healthy diets, how to make healthy snacks, and physical activity. Nutritional status was classified according to body mass index for age, using the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention growth charts as reference, and the foods the children ate at school were classified according to the Santa Catarina School Canteens Act. Data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, and values of p ≤ 0.05 were defined as significant. Results:The percentage of overweight/obese schoolchildren increased from 21.8 to 23.6% in the intervention group and from 33.7 to 35.0% in the no-intervention group (p > 0.05). The intervention group significantly (p = 0.013) reduced its intake of artificial juice, which is prohibited by the Act. In the no-intervention group, there was a significant increase in intake of prohibited foods, such as mass-produced snacks (p = 0.021) and soda (p = 0.031). Furthermore, the intake of breakfast cereal, which is appropriate for eating at school, decreased (p = 0.039). Conclusion:Despite its short duration, after attending the nutritional education program, there were improvements in the quality of the food the schoolchildren were eating. J Pediatr (Rio J). 2009;85(4):315-321:Dietary and nutritional education, nutritional assessment, dietary habits, anthropometry, overweight, obesity. ResumoObjetivo: Avaliar o efeito de um programa de educação nutricional na prevalência de sobrepeso/obesidade e no consumo alimentar de alunos da 2ª série do ensino fundamental.Métodos: Amostra composta por 135 escolares de uma escola privada e uma pública de Florianópolis (SC), divididos entre os grupos com intervenção (n = 55) e sem intervenção (n = 80). Realizaram-se duas avaliações antropométricas e de consumo alimentar, antes e após a aplicação de um programa de educação nutricional. O programa foi composto por oito encontros quinzenais e abordou temas referentes à alimentação saudável, confecção de lanches adequados e atividade física. O diagnóstico nutricional foi obtido pelo índice de massa corporal para idade, de acordo com o Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, e os alimentos consumidos na escola foram classificados em permitidos ou proibidos pela Lei das Cantinas de Santa Catarina. Os dados foram analisados no Statistical Package for the Social Sciences, considerando como significativo p ≤ 0,05.Resultados: O percentual de escolares com sob...

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“…Current contexts, in combination with children's predispositions and traditional feeding practices, promote diets too high in added sugar, fat and salt, and total energy, while discouraging the consumption of complex carbohydrates, fruits and vegetables. 49 Because flavor preferences are learned, children can learn to like healthy foods if given the opportunity. Research by Mennella et al 7 has revealed that the fetus experiences flavors from the maternal diet as amniotic fluid is swallowed in utero.…”

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Parental influence on children's early eating environments and obesity risk: implications for prevention

2010

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Most childhood obesity prevention efforts have focused on school-age children and adolescents and have had limited success. We argue that the first years of life, including the prenatal period, the postnatal suckling period and the transition to the modified adult diet, may provide opportunities for preventive interventions. These early periods are characterized by high plasticity and rapid transitions, and parents have a high degree of control over children's environments and experiences. Observational and experimental evidence reveal persistent effects of early environments on eating behavior and obesity risk, suggesting that interventions should be tested during these early periods. The central task parents have in early development points to their potential as key targets and agents of change in early preventive interventions. In this paper, we review evidence of early environmental effects on children's eating and obesity risk, highlighting ways that parental feeding practices and parents' own behaviors impact these outcomes and calling for further experimental research to elucidate whether these factors are indeed promising targets for childhood obesity preventive interventions.

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Use of the Revised Children’s Diet Quality Index to assess preschooler’s diet quality, its sociodemographic predictors, and its association with body weight status

Cited by 74 publications

References 18 publications

Comparison of food consumption frequencies among NHANES and CPES children: Implications for dietary pesticide exposure and risk assessment

Comparison of food consumption frequencies among NHANES and CPES children: Implications for dietary pesticide exposure and risk assessment

Evaluating the effect of nutritional education on the prevalence of overweight/obesity and on foods eaten at primary schools

Parental influence on children's early eating environments and obesity risk: implications for prevention

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