Children’s Preference for Large Portions: Prevalence, Determinants, and Consequences

Colapinto, Cynthia K; Fitzgerald, Angela L.; Taper, L. Janette; Veugelers, Paul J.

doi:10.1016/j.jada.2007.04.012

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“…Our finding that, relative to the amount of television watching, eating in front of the television is progressively and more strongly associated with poor nutrition suggests that circumstances of eating while watching television have a profound negative effect on the quality of diets. Mechanisms may include effective advertising of unhealthy foods at meal time hours and mindless eating while watching television that results in the consumption of larger portions of unhealthy foods (42) . Furthermore, children who eat in front of the television will miss out on the nutritional and psychosocial benefits of family meals (22)(23)(24) .…”

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Nutrition and body weights of Canadian children watching television and eating while watching television

Liang

Kuhle

Veugelers

2009

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To examine whether eating while watching television poses a risk for poor nutrition and excess body weight over and above that of time spent watching television. Design: We analysed data of grade 5 students participating in a comprehensive population-based survey in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia. This survey included the Harvard's Youth Food Frequency Questionnaire, students' height and weight measurements, and a parent survey. We applied multivariable linear and logistic random effects models to quantify the associations of watching television and eating while watching television with diet quality and body weight. Setting: The province of Nova Scotia, Canada. Subjects: Grade 5 students (n 4966). Results: Eating supper while watching television negatively affected the consumption of fruits and vegetables and overall diet quality. More frequent supper while watching television was associated with more soft drink consumption, a higher percentage energy intake from sugar out of total energy from carbohydrate, a higher percentage energy intake from fat, and a higher percentage energy intake from snack food. These associations appeared independent of time children spent watching television. Both watching television and eating while watching television were positively and independently associated with overweight. Conclusions: Our observations suggest that both sedentary behaviours from time spent watching television as well as poor nutrition as a result of eating while watching television contribute to overweight in children. They justify current health promotion targeting time spent watching television and call for promotion of family meals as a means to avoid eating in front of the television.

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Nutrition and body weights of Canadian children watching television and eating while watching television

Liang

Kuhle

Veugelers

2009

Public Health Nutr.

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“…When people eat in restaurants, they tend to consume largerportions and energy densefoods [15]. As a result, people who eat fast food twice a week or more show a greater increase in BMI than those who eatfast food once a week or not at all.…”

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Childhood Obesity –An International Problem. What Every Parent Should be Aware of

Kafetzopoulos¹

2015

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Childhood obesity is a major public health problem that requires immediate action by the scientific community and the goverments. It is not clear what causes obesity but several dietary patterns seems to have association. We examine the association of breakfast consumption, meal frequency, school's canteen's food, fruit -vegetable and fast -food consumption. Keywords OpinionThe increase in the prevalence of overweight and obesity in children and adolescents worldwide, is "dramatic" in recent decades [1]. The IOTF characterizes it as an "out of control" situation. The figures are alarming: more than 155 million schoolage children are overweight, of which 30-45 million are obese. Childhood obesity comlicationsAs stated in the WHO global report on obesity, the most important long-term complication is the fact that obesity is maintained in adulthood, along with all the accompanying health risks [2]. Amongst the effects affecting all organic systems are dyslipidemia, insulin resistance, type II diabetes andfatty liver. Other complicationsmay be a reduced quality of life, low self esteem and poor academic performance [3]. Childhood obesity etiology"If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health." Hippocrates 460-377 BC Although the circumstances under which obesity occurs are not fully understood, it is confirmed that obesity appears when energy intake exceeds energy expenditure. However, environmental factors, preferences, lifestyle and cultural environment seem to play an important role in the increasing prevalence of obesity worldwide [4] (www.ideficsstudy.eu). The food categories related to childhood obesity are oils, sweets, meat, cheese and frozen desserts [6]. Dietary patterns associated to childhood obesitySeveral factors have contributed to the change of children's nutrition. To name a few; the increasing food availability, the urbanization and the overall improvement of the socio-economic conditions. Below, we will examine dietary factors that are linked to childhood obesity, such as breakfast consumption, meal frequency, eating at school, types of snack, fruit, vegetables and fast food consumption. Breakfast:Although the exact mechanism remains unclear, eating breakfast may be associated to a lower fat intake and a better distribution of calories intraday [7].Moreover, breakfast consumptionis a sign of a healthy and organized eating behavior [8].

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“…Dabei spielen sozioökonomische, strukturelle, psychosoziale und soziokulturelle Faktoren eine Rolle (Muff und Weyers 2010). Eine kanadische Studie mit nahezu 5000 Schülerinnen und Schülern konnte zeigen, dass Kinder aus sozial benachteiligten Familien grö-ßere Portionen Pommes frites und Chips essen als jene aus nicht benachteiligten Familien (Colapinto et al 2007). Auch die Daten aus der deutschen Untersuchung "EsKiMo" im Rahmen des KiGGS bestätigen ein ungünstigeres Ernährungsverhaltensmuster bei Kindern mit niedrigem Sozialstatus …”

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Qualitätskriterien für Maßnahmen der Gesundheitsförderung und Primärprävention von Übergewicht bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

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Children’s Preference for Large Portions: Prevalence, Determinants, and Consequences

Cited by 93 publications

References 52 publications

Nutrition and body weights of Canadian children watching television and eating while watching television

Nutrition and body weights of Canadian children watching television and eating while watching television

Childhood Obesity –An International Problem. What Every Parent Should be Aware of

Qualitätskriterien für Maßnahmen der Gesundheitsförderung und Primärprävention von Übergewicht bei Kindern und Jugendlichen

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