“…Health and nutrition professionals are interested in identifying and tracking eating competence because it appears to be a global construct related to many indicators of health and well being. Eating competence is associated with positive parent feeding practices for school age (Lohse & Cunningham-Sabo, 2012) and preschool children (Tylka, Eneli, VanDiest, & Lumeng, 2013), a normal BMI, weight satisfaction, fewer cognitive behaviors associated with disordered eating (Brown, Larsen, Myland, & Eggett, 2014;Clifford, Keeler, Gray, Steingrube, & Morris, 2010;Krall & Lohse, 2011;Lohse, Satter, Horacek, Gebreselassie, & Oakland, 2007), being physically active (Lohse, Arnold, & Wamboldt, 2013), lower cardiovascular risk Psota, Lohse, & West, 2007), and better sleep quality (Quick et al, 2013). Competent eaters have higher diet quality (Lohse, Bailey, Krall, Wall, & Mitchell, 2012), including adherence to a Mediterranean Diet , and more food resource management skills (Patterson, Arnold, & Lohse, 2012).…”