Grazing in children: associations with child’s characteristics and parental feeding practices

Does controlling for epicurean eating or the tendency to supersize food portions change the relationship between mindful eating and grazing?

“…Another association with mindful eating, however, is the negative association with grazing [ 5 ]. This refers to uncontrolled and repetitive consumption of small amounts of food [ 6 ], which has been linked to overconsumption and obesity [ [7] , [8] , [9] , [10] ]. In essence, smaller portions can have an equally negative impact on weight regulation when viewed in conjunction with grazing behaviour, as opposed to within the context of epicurean eating.…”

Az Az Sık Sık Yeme: Otlanma Tarzı Yeme Ölçeği'nin Türkçeye Uyarlanması, Geçerlik ve Güvenirlik Çalışması

“…Despite having similar characteristics, more frequent grazing behavior and disordered eating, higher levels of anxiety and depression symptoms are observed in the compulsive type compared to the non-compulsive subtype (Goodpaster et al 2016). Grazing is encountered in various populations, including eating disorders (Heriseanu et al 2017), obesity (Micanti et al 2017), university students (Lane and Szabo 2013), children (Conceição et al 2021) and non-clinical populations (Conceição et al 2017a). In addition to studies reporting the prevalence of grazing in the community population as 48.24% (Heriseanu et al 2019a), and 23.32% (Heriseanu et al 2017), there are indications that the prevalence of this eating behavior in the community has reached up to 81% during the coronavirus pandemic (Ramalho et al 2022).…”