Body Satisfaction in 8-Year-Old Children After Long-term Dietary Counseling in a Prospective Randomized Atherosclerosis Prevention Trial

Abstract

Long-term, individualized dietary counseling since infancy with the focus on dietary fat did not enhance body dissatisfaction or desire to be thinner in 8-year-old children.

Weight Gain Since Infancy and Prepubertal Body Dissatisfaction

“…Previously, we showed that in this sample of children there were no statistically significant differences in the mean values of estimated current or desired body sizes or body dissatisfaction between the intervention and control groups of STRIP. 17 Further, the proportions of children who wished to be thinner, who were satisfied with their size, or who wished to look heavier were closely similar in the intervention and control groups of STRIP. 17 Thus, STRIP group was ignored in the analyses of the present study.…”

“…17 Further, the proportions of children who wished to be thinner, who were satisfied with their size, or who wished to look heavier were closely similar in the intervention and control groups of STRIP. 17 Thus, STRIP group was ignored in the analyses of the present study.…”

Interventions for the prevention of overweight and obesity in preschool children: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

“…All RCTs were approved by ethics review committees and no conflict of interest was declared. Of the RCTs, three were conducted in North America (two in the USA and one in the USA and Canada) (15–20), two in western Europe (Finland and Scotland) (21–27), one in eastern Europe (Belarus) (28–30) and one in Asia (Thailand) (31). With the exception of the studies conducted in Thailand and Finland, all other RCTs were started after the year 2000.…”

“…All RCTs were approved by ethics review committees and no conflict of interest was declared. Of the RCTs, three were conducted in North America (two in the USA and one in the USA and Canada) (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)(20), two in western Europe (Finland and Scotland) (21)(22)(23)(24)(25)(26)(27), one in 9477 references (see Table 2 ; 95% CI -0.98 to -0.10;…”

“…All RCTs but two were cluster randomized trials, with clusters being either preschools/nurseries or school classes in four studies (15)(16)(17)(18)(19)26,27,31), and maternity hospitals in one study (28)(29)(30). The remaining two studies randomized mother/child dyads (20) and children at the age of 7 months (21)(22)(23)(24)(25).…”