Parental Nutrition Knowledge Rather Than Nutrition Label Use Is Associated With Adiposity in Children

Abstract

Objective-Determine how parental nutrition label use, label literacy, and nutrition knowledge may be associated with cardiovascular health in parents and their children.Design and Setting-Cross-sectional analyses of 2006 data from the Healthy Heart Project in Montreal, Canada.Participants-Among community recruited families, parents were predominantly mothers (n = 127 [80%]; mean age, 45.0 years) and half of their children were female (44%; mean age, 12.5 years).Main Outcome Measures-Blood pressure, lipids, and weight. Nutrition label use, label literacy, and nutrition knowledge among parents were collected using existing scales. Conclusions and Implications-Parents with greater nutrition label use had more favorable lipids, but children's lipids were unaffected. Children of parents with greater nutrition knowledge had lower adiposity. Further research on the correlates of label use and health is needed. Analyses-Multivariable linear regression models. Results-Among

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