Maternal feeding practices predict fruit and vegetable consumption in young children. Results of a 12-month longitudinal study

Gregory, Jane; Paxton, Susan J.; Brozovic, Anna M.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2011.04.012

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“…However, it is striking that parent-report measures of pressure to eat are associated with lower (rather than higher) weight, in both cross-sectional (Ventura & Birch, 2008) and longitudinal (Farrow & Blissett, 2008) studies. Longitudinal studies by Gregory et al have additionally found that pressure to eat predicts lower interest in food and greater food fussiness in children (Gregory et al, 2010a), and less fruit intake, even when controlling for initial intake (Gregory et al, 2011). These studies could refl ect pressure causing low weight and unhealthy eating behaviour, but even the longitudinal results do not rule out the possibility that pressure simply tracks children ' s eating behaviour and weight.…”

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Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Carnell

Kim

Pryor

2012

International Review of Psychiatry

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We live in a world replete with opportunities to overeat highly calorifi c, palatable foods -yet not everyone becomes obese. Why? We propose that individuals show differences in appetitive traits (e.g. food cue responsiveness, satiety sensitivity) that manifest early in life and predict their eating behaviours and weight trajectories. What determines these traits? Parental feeding restriction is associated with higher child adiposity, pressure to eat with lower adiposity, and both strategies with less healthy eating behaviours, while authoritative feeding styles coincide with more positive outcomes. But, on the whole, twin and family studies argue that nature has a greater infl uence than nurture on adiposity and eating behaviour, and behavioural investigations of genetic variants that are robustly associated with obesity (e.g. FTO) confi rm that genes infl uence appetite. Meanwhile, a growing body of neuroimaging studies in adults, children and high risk populations suggests that structural and functional variation in brain networks associated with reward, emotion and control might also predict appetite and obesity, and show genetic infl uence. Together these different strands of evidence support a biobehavioural risk model of obesity development. Parental feeding recommendations should therefore acknowledge the powerful -but modifi able -contribution of genetic and neurological infl uences to children ' s eating behaviour.

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Section: Pressure To Eatmentioning

confidence: 84%

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Carnell

Kim

Pryor

2012

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…This may lead to overeating behaviour as they grow older since children are taught to continue eating after they are full. In addition, pressure strategies are argued to evoke lifelong cognitive aversions to the pressured foods because children associate them with negative eating experiences (Gregory, Paxton, & Brozovic, 2011).…”

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The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

2015

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This study used Family Communication Patterns Theory (FCPT) to explore how familydinner-related communication takes place and how parents' feeding practices may be associated with children's preferences for dinner meals. The sample consisted of 12 dyads with seven-and eight-year-old Norwegian children and their parents. In-depth photo interviews were used for collecting data. Interview transcripts and photographs were examined through content analysis.Results indicated that most families were conversation oriented, and communication tended to shift from consensual during weekdays to pluralistic at weekends. On weekdays, the dinner menu was often a compromise between children's preferences and parents' intentions to provide quick, healthy dinner options for the family. To a greater extent at weekends, children were allowed to choose dinner alternatives for the entire family. Restriction of unhealthy dinner alternatives was the practice most used to control children's diets and, in fact, might explain children's high preferences for unhealthy dinner alternatives. Results underline the importance of giving children control of what they eat and being responsive to children's preferences while guiding them towards healthy dinner alternatives rather than using force and restriction. From a more theoretical perspective, this study explored how FCPT could be combined with theories about parents feeding practices to understand meal preferences and choices among young children and their families, and how time and situation (context) influence families' communication patterns and feeding practices in their homes.

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“…Cuando un padre ejerce control sobre el acceso a un alimento, él o ella puede limitar el consumo de la comida poco saludable momentáneamente; pero, cuando esta está disponible, el niño no cuenta con mecanismos autorregulatorios para rechazarla. Por lo tanto, la restricción termina produciendo la misma conducta que trata de evitar, ya que sitúa el control de la ingesta de comida en factores externos antes que internos, como las señales de hambre y saciedad (Gregory et al, 2011;Larsen et al, 2015). En un estudio observacional realizado con madres estadounidenses de niñas entre 4.6 y 6.4 años de edad, se encontró que la restricción para comer reportada por ellas y por sus padres predijo una mayor cantidad de alimentos poco saludables ingeridos en ausencia de sensación de hambre en las niñas (Fischer & Birch, 2000).…”

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“…En un estudio transversal realizado con 755 madres belgas de distintos estratos socioeconómicos, con hijos e hijas con un promedio de edad de 3.5 años, se encontró una correlación positiva entre el modelado de ingesta de frutas y vegetales reportado tanto por las madres como por parte de los niños y niñas (Vereecken et al, 2010). En su estudio longitudinal, Gregory, et al (2011) indican que la frecuencia reportada de consumo de verduras en niños de 2 años fue predicha por el modelado referido por sus madres.…”

Section: Prácticas Parentales Y Alimentación Saludableunclassified

“…En esta línea, estudios más recientes no han encontrado una relación entre los indicadores objetivos de composición corporal y las prácticas parentales de alimentación llevadas a cabo por los padres. Por ejemplo, Gregory et al (2011) no encontraron una relación entre las prácticas parentales y el peso de los niños en edad de 1 año y 2 años de edad en su estudio longitudinal.…”

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Prácticas parentales, alimentación saludable y medidas objetivas de composición corporal en la niñez preescolar

Arauz

Esparza

2017

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Prácticas parentales, alimentación saludable y medidas objetivas de composición corporal en la niñez preescolarResumen. El presente trabajo describe la evidencia empírica en cuanto a la relación entre prácticas parentales, alimentación saludable y medidas objetivas de composición corporal en la niñez preescolar en contextos europeos, estadounidenses y latinoamericanos. Se encuentran algunas concordancias en cuanto a la presión y la restricción para comer. Se proponen direcciones para el desarrollo de líneas de investigación en el contexto latinoamericano: a) realización de más estudios, con el fin de confirmar si las relaciones entre las variables de interés se mantienen o cambian; b) realizar estos estudios con muestras aleatorizadas y representativas, con medidas de autoreporte y observacionales, de las prácticas parentales de alimentación; c) exploración del rol mediador y moderador de variables culturales y sociales específicas del contexto latinoamericano.Palabras clave. Alimentación, niñez, peso, IMC, Latinoamérica.Abstract. This paper describes empirical evidence regarding the relationship between parental practices, healthy eating and objective measures of body composition in preschool children in European, American and Latin American contexts. Concordances are noted in terms of pressure and restriction to eat. Directions are proposed for the development of lines of research in the Latin American context: a) conducting more studies in order to confirm if the relations between the variables of interest are maintained or changed; b) conduct these studies with randomized and representative samples, with self-report and observational measures of parental feeding practices; c) exploration of mediator and moderator roles that cultural and social variables specific to the Latin American context have on the relationships between the variables of interest.

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Maternal feeding practices predict fruit and vegetable consumption in young children. Results of a 12-month longitudinal study

Cited by 94 publications

References 45 publications

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

The role of family communication and parents' feeding practices in children's food preferences

Prácticas parentales, alimentación saludable y medidas objetivas de composición corporal en la niñez preescolar

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