Features of Eating Behavior of Children in Different Age Groups

Abstract

Currently, eating disorders (ED) refers to as «diseases of civilization» and the most important component in the development and progression of obesity in all age groups. Many studies conducted in the Americas, Europe, Russia indicate the increasing role of food programming, which is the basis for the formation of ED and determines the characteristics of the metabolism of an individual, the weight of the body and nature of the disease [1,2]. Various aspects of child nutrition in the first years of life, such as the nature of the introduction of complementary foods, the amount and nature of meals, time and frequency of eating and the formation of food preferences that determine the nature of human nutrition throughout life, have a programming effect and are associated with the risk of several diseases including obesity [3][4][5].Eating behavior (EB) is a set of forms of human behavior, a way of life and actions in various conditions, which include choice, especially food consumption, taking into account its sensory and other properties to provide the body with energy substrates, achieving psychological comfort from her admission, and evaluation of these processes. ED is aimed at meeting the biological, physiological, psychological and social needs of the individual. In this regard, the problems of studying the EB have an independent significance [6-9]. Eating behavior is influenced by internal and external factors that determine the availability of food, relative to food intake, emotional state and individual experience [10].EB is rated as harmonious or deviant. This score is determined by many different parameters: quantitative and qualitative indicators food, feeding, the setting in which the meal and the place that takes the process of eating in the structure of human values [11].According to psychosomatic theory, there are three main types of eating disorders: external, emotiogenic and restrictive. External eating behavior is characterized by increased reaction of the individual to external stimuli, which serve as: beautiful table set, dishes, the smell of food, advertising food, but internal incentives to food intake (the level of glycemia, free fatty acids). The importance of the availability to have a food. If children and adolescents with a body weight appropriate to age and sex, response to external food stimuli occurs in a state of hunger, the obese patients such a relationship is violated. Almost all patients with obesity have external manifestations of ED in different degrees of severity, given the slowly emerging and defective sense of fullness [6,12]. Research ArticleEndocrinol Metab Int J 2018, 6(1): 00157 AbstractAim: The aim of the present study is to show the features of eating behavior of pre-adolescents and adolescents with different body mass. Mаterials and methods:The study included 249 pre-adolescents aged 8-12 years and 314 adolescents aged 13-18 years. Body mass index has been calculated for every patient (considering age and gender). In order to assess the eating behavior of the partici...

Children’s and Mothers’ Perspectives of Problematic Eating Behaviours in Young Children and Adolescents: An Exploratory Study

“…Second, the relationship between problematic eating behaviours and BMI should be verified in longitudinal studies. Third, based on other studies [1,32], in the future (next to the division into sex and age), body weight should be categorized as either normal or excessive to compare the analyses carried out in these two groups. Fourth, apart from the perspective of mothers, it is necessary to consider the perspective of fathers.…”