Eating behaviour and weight in children

Webber, Laura; Hill, Claire; Saxton, Jenny; Jaarsveld, Cornelia H M van; Wardle, Jane

doi:10.1038/ijo.2008.219

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“…These findings are at odds with previous UK work, 17 which has shown systematic graded associations between eating behaviours measured by the CEBQ and adiposity. However, such studies have significantly larger sample sizes and our current samples are small.…”

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“…We hypothesised that 'food approach' child eating behaviours would be positively associated with child BMI, whereas 'food avoidant' behaviours would be negatively associated with child BMI in all samples. 16,17 It was hypothesised that WG parents would use lower levels of controlling feeding practices than WB parents, and that BAC parents would use the highest levels of these practices. It was hypothesised that WG children would show lower levels of 'food approach', and higher levels of 'food avoidant' behaviours than WB children, and that children of BAC parents in the UK would be reported to show higher food approach and lower food avoidance than either White European group.…”

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Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and White German samples

Blissett

Bennett

2012

Eur J Clin Nutr

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Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children's eating behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and White German samples J Blissett and C Bennett BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES: Childhood obesity rates differ between cultural groups in Europe. Parents influence their children's weight status and eating behaviours through feeding practices. We investigated cultural differences in feeding practices and eating behaviours and their relation to child weight in three groups that differed in cultural background and geographical location. SUBJECTS/METHODS: Fifty-two White German (WG) families, in Germany (44 mothers, mean age 33.8 years), 79 White British (WB) families, in the UK (74 mothers, mean age 37.8) and 40 Black Afro-Caribbean (BAC) families, in the UK (34 mothers, mean age 31.8) participated in this study of 2-12-year-old children. Parents completed questionnaires assessing feeding practices and eating behaviours; children were measured and weighed by experimenters. RESULTS: MANCOVAs indicated that BAC parents used the highest levels of restrictive feeding practices and the lowest levels of monitoring, and their children showed the highest levels of food-approach behaviours. WG parents used the lowest levels of pressure to eat. Partial correlations showed that food-approach behaviours were correlated with child BMI in BAC and WG families but not in WB families. Parental restriction was associated with child Body Mass Index (BMI) in BAC families only. CONCLUSIONS: There are both similarities and differences in feeding practices and eating behaviours and their relationships with child weight in different cultural groups. Findings highlight the importance of being aware of cultural differences when carrying out research with multi-cultural samples in Europe.

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Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and White German samples

Blissett

Bennett

2012

Eur J Clin Nutr

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“…This finding suggests that the prevalence of overweight and obesity in Beijing increased from 2004 to 2010, and already has become a serious public health concern that needs to be addressed. Parent-reported eating speed of children at home was significantly associated with childhood overweight, which was consistent with the results reported by previous studies conducted in children (8)(9)(10) and adults (17)(18)(19) . The present study further assessed the eating rate of pre-school children by actually observing their eating behaviours under the usual food-consuming environment in kindergartens.…”

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“…Overeating, eating until full or having larger portion size of food also led to increase in energy intake and thus overweight or obesity (6,(13)(14)(15) . However, previous studies on the relationship between these eating behaviours and overweight were focused on parent-reported behaviours (8)(9)(10) or conducted in standardized laboratory settings or clinical research facilities (11,12,15) , and no information has yet been available on observed meal duration and excess energy intake of commonly consumed foods in daily life in pre-school children. Eating practices tend to be established early in life, and it is necessary to estimate the actual contributions of some unhealthy eating behaviours to childhood overweight in the context of children's usual food-consumption environment.…”

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Association of eating speed and energy intake of main meals with overweight in Chinese pre-school children

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Pan

Tang

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Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate the association between eating behaviours (eating speed and energy intake of main meals) and overweight in pre-school children. Design: Cross-sectional study. Data consisted of measurements (height and weight), questionnaire information (eating behaviours of eating speed and overeating) and on-site observation data (meal duration and energy intake of main meals). Setting: Seven kindergartens in Beijing, China. Subjects: Pre-school children (n 1138; age range 3?1-6?7 years old) from seven kindergartens participated in the study. Results: The multivariate-adjusted odds ratio of overweight in participants with parent-reported 'more than needed food intake' was 3?02 (95 % CI 2?06, 4?44) compared with the 'medium food intake' participants, and higher eating speed was associated with childhood overweight. For the two observed eating behaviours, each 418?7 kJ (100 kcal) increase of lunch energy intake significantly increased the likelihood for overweight by a factor of 1?445, and each 5-min increase in meal duration significantly decreased the likelihood for overweight by a factor of 0?861. Increased portions of rice and cooked dishes were significantly associated with overweight status (OR 5 2?274; 95 % CI 1?360, 3?804 and OR 5 1?378; 95 % CI 1?010, 1?881, respectively). Conclusions: Eating speed and excess energy intake of main meals are associated with overweight in pre-school children.

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“…There has been little previous work relating infant eating avidity to growth or weight gain, apart from one, which found associations between milk feeding vigour and concurrent skinfold thicknesses in healthy infants (11) as well as with BMI in the same infants at age 6 years (10) . A number of studies in childhood have found relationships between child eating behaviour and overweight or adiposity (26)(27)(28)(29) , but these were not prospective, making it difficult to distinguish cause and effect. One study has shown that child eating behaviours track through mid childhood (30) .…”

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To what extent do weight gain and eating avidity during infancy predict later adiposity?

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Cox

Sherriff³

et al. 2011

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Objective: To determine the extent to which weight gain and eating behaviours in infancy predict later adiposity. Design: Population-based, prospective, longitudinal birth cohort study. Weights collected in infancy were used to calculate Z-scores for weight gain to age 1 year conditional on birth weight (CWG). To avoid multiple significance tests, variables from the parent questionnaire completed at age 1 year describing eating avidity were combined using general linear modelling to create an infancy avidity score. Anthropometry, skinfold thicknesses and bioelectrical impedance data collected at age 7-8 years were combined using factor analysis, to create an adiposity index. Setting: Gateshead, UK. Subjects: Members of the Gateshead Millennium Study cohort with data at both time points (n 561). Results: CWG in infancy significantly predicted adiposity at age 7 years, but related more strongly to length and lean mass. High adiposity (. 90th internal percentile) at age 7 years was significantly associated with high CWG (relative risk 2?76; 95 % CI 1?5, 5?1) in infancy, but less so with raised (. 74th internal percentile) eating avidity in infancy (relative risk 1?87; 95 % CI 0?9, 3?7). However, the majority of children with high weight gain (77?6 %) or avidity (85?5 %) in infancy did not go on to have high adiposity at age 7 years. Conclusions: Rapid weight gain in infancy and the eating behaviours which relate to it do predict later adiposity, but are more strongly predictive of later stature and lean mass. Keywords Obesity Weight velocity Feeding behaviour InfancyA number of studies have found significant associations between rapid infancy weight gain and later overweight (1) , leading to the suggestion that prevention (2,3) and even treatment of childhood obesity (4,5) should begin as early as the first year of life. However, weight gain in infancy reflects growth in bone and muscle as well as fat and some infants will be showing rapid gain in height or lean mass rather than adiposity (6) . Thus while on average rapid weight gain may predict later adiposity, what is not clear is how well it would prospectively identify individual children at risk. There is also recent research that suggests there are distinctive childhood eating behaviours related to overweight which may reflect an inherent tendency to overeat (7) , so eating behaviour in infancy could predispose to, or protect against, later obesity (7,8) .Apart from studies examining how the type and style of milk feeding relates to later obesity (9-11) , we currently know little about eating behaviour in infancy and even less about how it tracks on to later adiposity or eating style. We hypothesised that eating avidity, a global term to denote enthusiasm and hunger for food, might be a useful predictor of gain in fat. The Gateshead Millennium Study was set up in order to examine infant growth and weight gain and how this relates to eating behaviour, prospectively measured from birth (12) . These children have now been followed into childhood where me...

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Eating behaviour and weight in children

Cited by 394 publications

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Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and White German samples

Cultural differences in parental feeding practices and children’s eating behaviours and their relationships with child BMI: a comparison of Black Afro-Caribbean, White British and White German samples

Association of eating speed and energy intake of main meals with overweight in Chinese pre-school children

To what extent do weight gain and eating avidity during infancy predict later adiposity?

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