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Nutrition & Dietetics
Ana Filipa Santos, Carla Fernandes, Marilia Fernandes, Antonio J. Santos, Manuela Verissimo
Summary: This study examined the relationships between children's emotion regulation, parental feeding practices, and children's food consumption. The findings suggest that children's emotion regulation and feeding practices are important determinants of children's food consumption. Future longitudinal studies are needed to explore the bidirectional associations between these factors and potential mechanisms.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Carola Del Valle, Horacio Miranda, Ligia Orellana, Klaus G. Grunert, Berta Schnettler
Summary: This study aimed to adapt the five-factor model of the Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire (CFPQ) to Spanish and evaluate its psychometric properties. The results showed that the adaptation performed well and the measurement invariance between fathers and mothers was verified. These findings provide important guidance for understanding the feeding practices of parents and adolescents.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Katie A. Loth, Ziyu Ji, Julian Wolfson, Jennifer Fisher, Jerica Berge, Dianne Neumark-Sztainer
Summary: The study aimed to understand how momentary factors within the home and family environment influence parents' use of food parenting practices. Data collected from 109 parents of preschool aged children over a ten-day period showed that parent stress, parent and child low mood, and child negative behaviors early in the day were associated with the use of less supportive food parenting practices later that same day.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kaat Philippe, Claire Chabanet, Sylvie Issanchou, Alice Gronhoj, Jessica Aschemann-Witzel, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: This study found differences in feeding practices and involvement between Danish mothers and fathers, with fathers tending to use higher levels of coercive control practices and mothers using more structure and autonomy support practices.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alicia Beltran, Rosemary Demet, Sheryl O. Hughes, Alexis C. Wood, Debbe Thompson, Teresia M. O. Connor, Tom Baranowski
Summary: This study examined the influence of parents' feeding style and vegetable parenting practices on their child's vegetable intake. The results showed that parents primarily selected responsive vegetable parenting practices, believing they would be easy to implement and lead to long-term positive outcomes. Parent feeding style had minimal impact on the selection, frequency of use, and effectiveness of vegetable parenting practices.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Carolina Bottini Prates, Maria Aparecida Zanetti Passos, Deborah Cristina Landi Masquio
Summary: The study found that preschool children's consumption of ultra-processed foods was negatively associated with Monitoring parental feeding practices, and positively associated with Emotion Regulation and Health restriction parental feeding practices. These results support the use of successful parental feeding practices to promote healthy eating habits in preschoolers.
REVISTA DE NUTRICAO-BRAZILIAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Bosede Alice Omachi, Annette Van Onselen, Unathi Kolanisi
Summary: This study assessed household food security and feeding patterns of preschoolers in Niger State, Nigeria. The results showed that most children consumed cereal-based products and fruits and vegetables were the least consumed. Additionally, almost all children were from food-insecure households, with a significant percentage being severely food insecure. Therefore, improving food availability and meeting the nutritional needs of preschool children is crucial.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Widjane Sheila Ferreira Goncalves, Rebecca Byrne, Pedro Israel Cabral de Lira, Marcelo Tavares Viana, Stewart G. Trost
Summary: Only 1 in 10 rural Brazilian preschool children meet the 24-hour movement guidelines. Parenting practices, such as having fewer rules and restrictions around play, limiting or monitoring screen time, and maintaining a consistent bedtime routine, are associated with children's adherence to the guidelines.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Biyi Chen, Kendra Kattelmann, Christopher Comstock, Lacey McCormack, Howard Wey, Jessica Meendering
Summary: This study found that food parenting practices have a greater impact on children's dietary intakes than parenting styles, with positive parenting practices within Structure significantly related to healthier children's intakes. Children with authoritative parents consumed more fruits compared to children with authoritarian or indulgent parents.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
K. A. Loth, Z. Ji, J. Wolfson, D. Neumark-Sztainer, J. M. Berge, J. O. Fisher
Summary: This study examined real-time parent feeding practices using an Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) protocol. The results showed that most parents' feeding practices fall within the structure and autonomy support domains. However, parents used a combination of practices across all domains instead of exclusively using supportive or unsupportive practices.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Christine E. Blake, Kirsten K. Davison, Rachel E. Blaine, Jennifer O. Fisher
Summary: Caregivers of preschool-aged children offer a variety of snacks, with higher SoFAS content in snacks provided for non-nutritive purposes and in social contexts. Understanding caregivers' schemas for offering snacks to young children can help in targeting obesity prevention and promoting healthy eating behaviors.
Article
Environmental Sciences
Jennifer Tartaglia, Michelle McIntosh, Jonine Jancey, Jane Scott, Andrea Begley
Summary: This research explored parents' experiences of feeding 0-5-year-old children and food literacy behaviors, revealing that parents face multiple challenges when trying to provide healthy food for their families. Support is needed to help parents achieve healthy eating practices for their families.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2021)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Sabrina Douglas, Gerarda Darlington, John Beaton, Kirsten Davison, Jess Haines
Summary: There is an association between coparenting quality and food parenting practices among both mothers and fathers, with higher coparenting quality being linked to healthier food parenting practices in mothers and fathers. Interventions targeting food parenting practices should include fathers and consider the coparenting relationship.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Rebecca A. Stone, Emma Haycraft, Jacqueline Blissett, Claire Farrow
Summary: The relationship between maternal emotional eating and child emotional eating is moderated by child food approach tendencies. When children have high food approach behaviors, mothers influence their emotional eating through the use of food as a reward. When children show medium to high food approach tendencies, mothers influence their emotional eating through restriction of food intake for health reasons.
JOURNAL OF THE ACADEMY OF NUTRITION AND DIETETICS
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Rebecca A. Stone, Jacqueline Blissett, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow
Summary: Emotional eating, which refers to overeating regardless of satiety and in response to emotional states, develops in childhood and is associated with obesity. Parental behaviors and child characteristics are implicated in emotional eating, and the use of food by parents to regulate children's emotions fully mediates the relationship between parent and child emotional eating. The use of food as a reward and restriction of food for health reasons partially mediate this relationship. Child negative affect moderates the mediated relationship between parent and child emotional eating. The findings suggest that child emotional eating may result from interrelationships between greater parent emotional eating, use of food as a reward, restriction of food for health reasons, and negative affective temperaments, but greater use of food for emotion regulation may predict greater child emotional eating irrespective of child temperament.
MATERNAL AND CHILD NUTRITION
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Clinical
E. Martin, C. T. Dourish, R. Hook, S. R. Chamberlain, S. Higgs
Summary: The study found that symptoms of ADHD and impulsivity are associated with disordered eating, and depression plays a mediating role in this relationship.
PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Katie L. Edwards, Jason M. Thomas, Suzanne Higgs, Jacqueline Blissett
Summary: Research has shown that observing others enjoy commonly disliked vegetables can encourage children's tastes and intake of the vegetable, indicating that exposing children to others enjoying vegetables could be a useful strategy for encouraging healthier eating in children.
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
M. Jarman, K. Edwards, J. Blissett
Summary: Preschool children's dietary intakes are influenced by various factors, and a systems approach is needed to effectively change dietary intake. Current research mainly focuses on influences at the parental and child levels, with limited analysis on the interactions between factors.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2022)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Helen K. Ruddock, Jeffrey M. Brunstrom, Lenny R. Vartanian, Suzanne Higgs
Summary: People eat more when dining with familiar others, and this socially facilitated intake is sustained over three consecutive days of meals. Additionally, individuals fail to compensate for the increased intake during social meals in their subsequent eating behavior under free-living conditions.
Article
Immunology
Roger A. H. Adan, Francesca Cirulli, Louise Dye, Suzanne Higgs, Kristien Aarts, Eline M. van der Beek, Jan K. Buitelaar, Frederic Destrebecq, Elke De Witte, Tobias Hartmann, Aniko Korosi, Lars Libuda, Suzanne L. Dickson
BRAIN BEHAVIOR AND IMMUNITY
(2022)
Article
Endocrinology & Metabolism
Michael P. Gardner, Jingya Wang, Jonathan M. Hazlehurst, Chris Sainsbury, Jacqueline Blissett, Krishnarajah Nirantharakumar, Neil Thomas, Srikanth Bellary
Summary: This study explored the impact of ethnicity, deprivation, and age on the progression from pre-diabetes to type 2 diabetes. The results showed that individuals of South Asian or Mixed-Race ethnicity and those facing social deprivation have an increased risk of progressing to type 2 diabetes from pre-diabetes.
Article
Psychology, Clinical
Angela Meadows, Suzanne Higgs
Summary: Many higher-weight individuals have internalized societal weight stigma, but rejecting and challenging societal devaluation can lead to better outcomes. This study examined predictors of responses to weight stigma in higher-weight individuals, finding that ingroup identification and perceiving societal weight stigma as illegitimate were important factors in stigma resistance.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alice R. Kininmonth, Moritz Herle, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow, Helen Croker, Abigail Pickard, Katie Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett, Clare Llewellyn
Summary: Parental feeding practices are important in shaping children's food environments. This study found that certain feeding practices had differential effects on children's eating behaviors based on their appetite avidity. These findings highlight the importance of providing tailored feeding advice to caregivers based on their child's unique appetite. Overall, this study is important for understanding the influence of feeding practices on children's eating behaviors. Evaluation: 9 out of 10.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Alice R. Kininmonth, Moritz Herle, Kristiane Tommerup, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow, Helen Croker, Abigail Pickard, Katie Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett, Clare Llewellyn
Summary: Parental feeding practices may be influenced by their child's weight and appetite traits. A twin study found that parents' feeding practices were related to their child's appetite traits. Within twin pairs, parents exerted more pressure on the twin with poorer appetite.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Alice R. R. Kininmonth, Moritz Herle, Emma Haycraft, Clare Farrow, Kristiane Tommerup, Helen Croker, Abigail Pickard, Katie Edwards, Jacqueline Blissett, Clare Llewellyn
Summary: Parental feeding practices and children's eating behaviors are reciprocally related, with certain practices nurturing and encouraging higher emotional overeating and greater enjoyment of food in preschool years. These findings provide valuable insights for tailored feeding interventions.
JOURNAL OF CHILD PSYCHOLOGY AND PSYCHIATRY
(2023)
Article
Biology
Suzanne Higgs
Summary: Cognition plays a key role in human eating behavior and disruptions to cognitive processes can lead to overeating and potential weight gain. This review examines the evidence on cognition as a causal factor in the development of obesity in humans. Meta-analyses suggest a cross-sectional association between cognitive function and obesity, even after controlling for other factors. However, there is also evidence suggesting a bidirectional relationship between obesity and cognitive function, making it unclear whether cognitive disruptions are a primary cause of obesity in humans.
PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Elizabeth Martin, Colin T. Dourish, Suzanne Higgs
Summary: The association between ADHD symptoms and disordered eating is mediated by deficits in interoception and negative mood. Reliance on hunger/satiety cues is a mediator of the relationship between inattentive symptoms and both restrictive and binge-type eating. Interoceptive accuracy is the most important facet of interoception in the relationship between inattentive symptoms and binge-type eating.
PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR
(2023)
Article
Environmental Sciences
Friederike Elsner, Lea Ellen Matthiessen, Dominika Srednicka-Tober, Wolfgang Marx, Adrienne O'Neil, Ailsa A. Welch, Richard Peter Hayhoe, Suzanne Higgs, Marja van Vliet, Ephimia Morphew-Lu, Renata Kazimierczak, Rita Goralska-Walczak, Klaudia Kopczynska, Thea Steenbuch Krabbe Bruun, Beatriz Philippi Rosane, Susanne Gjedsted Bugel, Carola Strassner
Summary: The INSUM project aims to develop research approaches to measure the health effects of sustainable and healthy diets. Questionnaires are commonly used to investigate the nexus between diet and mental health and social wellbeing. Explorative research designs are required for studying complex Eco-Regions.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH AND PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Food Science & Technology
Rebecca A. Stone, Jacqueline Blissett, Emma Haycraft, Claire Farrow
Summary: Emotionally eating children tend to consume high-sugar and high-fat foods. This study explored how induced mood condition, parental feeding practices, and child temperament interact to predict the kilocalories consumed by 4-5-year-old children in a laboratory setting. The results showed that children who experienced boredom consumed significantly more kilocalories than those in the control condition, and children with high negative affect who had parents using food to regulate emotions also consumed more kilocalories from sweet food when experiencing boredom compared to the control condition.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2023)