Article
Behavioral Sciences
Rachel L. Vollmer
Summary: This study compared the relationships between food parenting practices and child eating behavior among mothers and fathers, finding significant differences in the impact of parental practices based on parent sex. Mothers had a greater influence on children's eating behavior in terms of restriction for health and monitoring, while fathers had a greater impact on child food responsiveness and emotional overeating when using restriction for weight.
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Jerica M. Berge, Angela R. Fertig, Amanda Trofholz, Junia N. de Brito
Summary: This study examined the associations between real-time parental stress and depressed mood, food parenting practices, and child eating behaviors. It found that high levels of parental stress and depressed mood earlier in the day were associated with controlling food parenting practices and child food fussiness at dinner the same night.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
(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
Food Science & Technology
Anca Bacarea, Vladimir Constantin Bacarea, Cristina Cinpeanu, Claudiu Teodorescu, Ana Gabriela Seni, Raquel P. F. Guine, Monica Tarcea
Summary: The study showed that as people age, they pay more attention to healthy eating, and those with higher education levels tend to make healthier food choices. Additionally, individuals with cardiovascular disorders are more concerned about their diet.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Karen McCurdy, Kim M. Gans, Patricia Markham Risica, Katelyn Fox, Alison Tovar
Summary: Food insecurity is related to negative food parenting practices and poor child eating behaviors. However, there is no direct association between food insecurity and positive food parenting practices. Children in food insecure households are more likely to be food responsive and enjoy food, but have lower satiety responsiveness. Emotional overeating is not influenced by food security status.
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Anca Bacarea, Vladimir Constantin Bacarea, Florin Buicu, Calin Craciun, Bianca Kosovski, Raquel Guine, Monica Tarcea
Summary: This study examined the relationship between demographic, anthropometric, and emotional eating profiles among the Romanian adult population. The results showed that participants who used food as an escape from stress, loneliness, depression, or for emotional comfort had higher BMI, especially among the elderly. These findings provide valuable insights into emotional eating in Romania and have implications for public health policies aimed at preventing obesity and related disorders.
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Myoungock Jang, Roger Brown, Moonkyoung Park
Summary: The parent-child relationship plays an important role in improving children's eating behaviors in families with young children, with communication and limit setting being key factors.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Shaina D. Trevino, Nichole R. Kelly, Elizabeth L. Budd, Nicole R. Giuliani
Summary: Existing research supports a direct association between parent's own emotional eating and their child's emotional eating, as well as correlations among parent emotional eating, feeding practices, and child emotional eating. This study adds to the literature by examining the indirect effects of parental feeding practices in the association between parent emotional eating and child emotional eating, and explores how these effects vary based on parent gender. The findings suggest that restrictive feeding partially accounts for the association between parent and child emotional eating, with variations based on parent gender.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Lupita Maria Gonzalez, Amy Lammert, Suzanne Phelan, Alison K. Ventura
Summary: This study found that parenting stress during the pandemic was associated with less desirable feeding practices and problematic eating behaviors in children.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Olivia De-Jongh Gonzalez, Claire N. Tugault-Lafleur, Teresia M. O'Connor, Sheryl O. Hughes, Louise C. Masse
Summary: The study found similarities in food parenting practices between fathers and mothers, such as the positive association between restrictive practices and emotional overeating. However, differences emerged in FPP associated with children's food and satiety responsiveness, with a greater number of fathers' FPP predictive of these behaviors.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Lupita Maria Gonzalez, Amy Lammert, Suzanne Phelan, Alison K. Ventura
Summary: This study aimed to examine the relationships between parenting stress, feeding practices, and perceptions of children's eating behaviors during the COVID-19 pandemic. The findings suggest that higher levels of parenting stress are associated with less desirable feeding practices and greater perceptions of problematic eating behaviors in children.
Article
Food Science & Technology
Hermann Szymczak, Lucas Keller, Luka J. Debbeler, Josianne Kollmann, Nadine C. Lages, Gudrun Sproesser, Peter M. Gollwitzer, Harald T. Schupp, Britta Renner
Summary: This research examined the relationship between perceived and actual changes in healthy food intake, finding that only those who achieved a healthy dietary pattern shift perceived a change in their diet. Participants who made healthy shifts in their eating behavior showed a significant decrease in their BMI in both studies.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2021)
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
Nutrition & Dietetics
Maaike Koning, Jacqueline M. Vink, Carry Renders, Natascha Notten, Rob Eisinga, Junilla K. Larsen
Summary: The study found that parental general stress may influence adolescents' snack intake through the mediating role of food parenting practices, especially autonomy support. Other food parenting practices did not show similar mediating effects, and no significant indirect effects were observed with zBMI as an outcome variable. Further research is needed to replicate these findings and explore underlying mechanisms.
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
Food Science & Technology
Kaat Philippe, Sylvie Issanchou, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: This study explored parents' experiences of changes in their family's food-related behaviors during the first COVID-19 lockdown in France. Parents described positive changes like more local, fresh foods and cooking together, as well as negative changes such as increased food preparation burden and unhealthy food intake. They expressed a desire to maintain some of the positive changes but doubted the feasibility after the lockdown. The study revealed contrasts in parents' perceptions and gender differences in food-related experiences.
FOOD QUALITY AND PREFERENCE
(2022)
Article
Nutrition & Dietetics
Kaat Philippe, Sylvie Issanchou, Anais Roger, Valerie Feyen, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: The study found that most French parents determine food portion sizes for their children based on their feeding experiences and their child's appetitive traits, with few granting autonomy to their child in this decision-making process. Factors influencing portion sizes include the child's appetite, parents wanting to avoid food waste, among others.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Kaat Philippe, Claire Chabanet, Sylvie Issanchou, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: Research has shown that mothers and fathers perceive their child's eating behaviors in similar ways, but fathers tend to use more pressure and food as reward. There are moderate to high correlations between mothers' and fathers' feeding practices and styles, both of which can predict child eating behaviors. In households where both parents use higher levels of pressure to eat, the child may have lower food enjoyment.
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Kaat Philippe, Claire Chabanet, Sylvie Issanchou, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: This study found a positive association between young children's eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) and their BMI z-scores, with low inhibitory control, food as reward, and restriction for health identified as risk factors for EAH. Restriction for weight control was not directly linked to EAH, but was influenced by children's BMI z-scores.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Juliana Melendrez-Ruiz, Stephanie Chambaron, Erick Saldana, Sandrine Monnery-Patris, Gaelle Arvisenet
Summary: This study aimed to capture French consumers' mental representations of various pulse-based foods with different levels of processing. Results showed that consumers differentiate products more based on their level of processing rather than their main ingredient. Additionally, participants had more positive attitudes towards unprocessed, processed, or new ready-to-eat pulse products.
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
Business
Delphine Poquet, Emilie Ginon, Sylvie Marty, Caterina Franzon, Claire Chabanet, Sylvie Issanchou, Sandrine Monnery-Patris
Summary: This study assessed the impact of a hedonic intervention on the energy intake of midafternoon snacks consumed by children at home. Results showed that providing hedonic boxes can reduce the amount of snacks consumed by children, without affecting their nutritional quality. The intervention had a greater effect on heavy eaters.
JOURNAL OF THE ASSOCIATION FOR CONSUMER RESEARCH
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Kaat Philippe, Carla Perrotta, Aisling O'Donnell, Fionnuala M. McAuliffe, Catherine M. Phillips
Summary: This study aims to summarize and evaluate intervention components and process evaluation components in order to improve our understanding of the success of preconception and pregnancy interventions. It also aims to inform the design or adaptation of future interventions to prevent childhood obesity.
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Abigail Pickard, Jean-Pierre Thibaut, Kaat Philippe, Jeremie Lafraire
Summary: Previous research has shown that children with poorer taxonomic knowledge in the food domain tend to reject food more. This series of studies investigated the development of conceptual knowledge in the food domain and its link with food rejection. The results demonstrate that children as young as 3 years old are already attending to thematic and script structures to inform food-based decision making, and increased food rejection tendencies are negatively related to script and thematic understanding.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Nutrition & Dietetics
Paula Varela, Sofia De Rosso, Andreia Ferreira Moura, Martina Galler, Kaat Philippe, Abigail Pickard, Tija Rageliene, Julia Sick, Roselinde van Nee, Valerie L. Almli, Gaston Ares, Alice Gronhoj, Sara Spinelli, Ellen van Kleef
Summary: This narrative review examines the scientific evidence on healthy eating in children and adolescents and provides a conceptual framework for promoting healthier diets. It discusses various influencing factors, barriers to healthy eating, and recommends a range of actions to create healthier food environments and empower children and adolescents to make better food choices. A holistic systems approach is emphasized to support sustainable dietary behaviors and improve health at a societal level.
NUTRITION RESEARCH REVIEWS
(2023)
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Hugues Piloquet, Benoit Berge, Pascal Maigret, Veronique Hospital
Summary: This study aimed to explore the effects of environmental factors on eating behavior and food intake in toddlers. The results showed that food fussiness was more common in older children, children conceived with medical assistance, children exposed to distractions during meals, rewarded by parents to finish meals, free to eat at will, and those who ate only occasionally with the whole family. Unsatisfactory dietary diversification was not significantly associated with any variable.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Victoria Norton, Julie A. Lovegrove, Marcus Tindall, Julia Rodriguez Garcia, Stella Lignou
Summary: The UK's aging population requires promotion of balanced nutrition, with a particular focus on increasing dietary fiber intake. Surveys involving older adults showed their willingness to learn about dietary fiber and the need for accessible information. Educational materials proved effective in engaging older adults and were perceived as useful. A holistic approach, involving support from various sources, can aid in improving dietary fiber consumption and overall health outcomes among older adults.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Gary J. Farkas, Paige M. Cunningham, Alicia M. Sneij, John E. Hayes, Mark S. Nash, Arthur S. Berg, David R. Gater, Barbara J. Rolls
Summary: Overeating associated with neurogenic obesity after spinal cord injury (SCI) may be related to how persons with SCI experience satiation, their eating frequency, and the context in which they eat their meals. Those with SCI rely less on physiological satiation cues for meal termination and instead rely more on hedonic cues. There are differences in meal contexts and eating frequency between SCI individuals and controls, with SCI individuals consuming fewer meals but having a higher overall eating frequency due to increased snacking. These factors likely contribute to overeating associated with neurogenic obesity after SCI.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Shana Adise, Kerri N. Boutelle, Panteha Hayati Rezvan, Eric Kan, Kyung E. Rhee, Michael I. Goran, Elizabeth R. Sowell
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between executive functions and cognition during adolescence, and the intake of fat and sugar two years later. The study found that higher impulsivity and reward-seeking behaviors were related to greater fat and sugar intake in males, while higher negative urgency and BMI were related to greater intake in both sexes. These findings suggest that individuals with certain traits may be more at risk for weight gain due to overconsumption of unhealthy foods.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Claire Margerison, Gozde Aydin, Christel Larsson, Alison Booth, Anthony Worsley, Janandani Nanayakkara
Summary: The COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns resulted in changes in food accessibility and availability, leading to shifts in food habits and behaviors among people worldwide. A study conducted in Australia examined the self-reported changes in food habits and behaviors of adults during the COVID-19 restrictions in 2020. The majority of respondents reported developing positive food habits, such as trying new recipes, cooking from scratch, and reducing take-away meals. The study also found that family involvement in food preparation and eating together increased during the restrictions. However, there were negative experiences, including difficulties in purchasing certain foods and limited access to food outlets.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Betsy Cogan, Jamie A. Cooper
Summary: This study aimed to assess the effect of dietary sweetness on appetite in adults with and without obesity. The results showed that the response of ghrelin to unsweetened rinses was energy-specific for all adults, while rinses containing sucralose led to greater cephalic phase cholecystokinin release in adults with a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 kg/m(2).
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Rebecca Gregson, Jared Piazza, Heather Shaw
Summary: Recent scholarship has identified a group of individuals who self-identify as anti-vegan, and they have distinct dietarian identities and ideological profiles. Anti-vegans show higher levels of commitment to their dietary patterns compared to omnivores, and they also score higher on various ideological measures.
Review
Behavioral Sciences
Gibson Weydmann, Patricia Maidana Miguel, Nour Hakim, Laurette Dube, Patricia Pelufo Silveira, Lisiane Bizarro
Summary: This study systematically reviewed the association between obesity and overweight with reinforcement learning performance. It was found that obesity might be associated with impairments in utilizing aversive outcomes to change behavior, but further research is needed to confirm this association.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Laura Kudlek, Rebecca A. Jones, Carly Hughes, Robbie Duschinsky, Andrew Hill, Rebecca Richards, Megan Thompson, Ann Vincent, Simon J. Griffin, Amy L. Ahern
Summary: This study explored how participants of an ACT-based weight management intervention (WMI) experience emotional eating and highlighted the importance of self-awareness and alternative coping strategies in improving emotional eating. It also emphasized the need for ongoing and personalized interventions to support individuals with external locus of control and complex emotional eating experiences.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Stefanie C. Landwehr, Monika Hartmann
Summary: This study examines the influence of peers on children's snack purchasing decisions, finding that the presence of peers strongly impacts children's brand awareness and price perception, highlighting the crucial role of social influence in shaping children's decision-making processes.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Rao Yuan, Shaosheng Jin, Wenchao Wu
Summary: This study examines the interactive effects of information and consumer trust on consumer preferences for organic food. The results show that consumers are willing to pay a higher price for organic food, especially those with higher levels of trust. The introduction of information significantly increases consumers' willingness to pay, with a greater increase observed among high-trust consumers.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Oda Bjorklund, Lars Wichstrom, Clare Llewellyn, Silje Steinsbekk
Summary: This study tests the psychometric properties of the Adult Eating Behavior Questionnaire (AEBQ) in a sample of 14-year-olds and examines its construct validity using the parent-reported Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire (CEBQ). The results show that a 7-factor solution of the AEBQ without the Hunger scale is a better fitting model, and there are small-to-moderate correlations between the AEBQ and CEBQ scales.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Alice M. Cox, Rachael W. Taylor, Jillian J. Haszard, Kathryn L. Beck, Pamela R. von Hurst, Cathryn A. Conlon, Lisa A. Te Morenga, Lisa Daniels, Jenny Mcarthur, Rebecca Paul, Neve H. McLean, Emily A. Jones, Ioanna Katiforis, Kimberley J. Brown, Madeline Gash, Madeleine Rowan, Elizabeth A. Fleming, Rosario Jupiterwala, Bailey R. Bruckner, Anne-Louise M. Heath
Summary: Although concerns are often raised about the potential impact of baby food pouch use and Baby-Led Weaning (BLW) on infant health, there is limited research in this area. This study found that frequent pouch use was associated with increased food fussiness and more selective eating, while BLW was associated with higher energy intake and a range of eating behaviors.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Briana L. Kennedy, Andrew M. Camara, Dominic M. D. Tran
Summary: This study investigated the relationship between obesity, overconsumption, and oversensitivity to rewards, and how it affects attentional biases towards food-related stimuli. The results showed that individuals with higher BMI had lower attentional priority for food and food logos, while increased consumption of HFHS foods and dieting predicted increased attentional priority for food and food logo images.
Article
Behavioral Sciences
Irene Campos-Sanchez, Rocio Munoz-Sanchez, Eva-Maria Navarrete-Munoz, Maria Sofia Molina-Inigo, Miriam Hurtado-Pomares, Paula Fernandez-Pires, Alicia Sanchez-Perez, Daniel Prieto-Botella, Iris Juarez-Leal, Paula Peral-Gomez, Cristina Espinosa-Sempere, Desiree Valera-Gran
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the association between sensory reactivity and feeding problems in young children. The results showed that taste/smell sensitivity was significantly associated with difficulties in texture transition/introduction, limited variety of foods, and both feeding problems. Additionally, children with total sensory reactivity or auditory filtering sensory reactivity had a higher prevalence of consuming a limited variety of foods. These findings highlight the importance of considering sensory reactivity as a potential predictor of feeding problems.
