Motivational determinants of food preferences in adolescents and pre‐adolescents

The aim of this study was to report breakfast food patterns among the rural and urban Croatian schoolchildren in the post-war socioeconomic changes. A quantitative Food Frequency Questionnaire was used. Subjects were 7-18 year old schoolchildren (815 from urban and 375 from rural areas). The average energy intake was 27.5 and 23.0% of the Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) in the urban and rural area respectively. Urban subjects tend to choose healthier options when older, while the rural subjects displayed the opposite (significantly correlated age with energy intake (% RDA) and dietary fibre intake (% of 'age + 5' rule). The same applied to age versus iron intake (urban positive, rural negative correlation). Breakfasts providing 20-30% RDA for energy and more than 300 mg of calcium were consumed by 20.7 and 32.4% of the urban and rural subjects respectively. Cereal products and milk and dairy products were the major breakfast constituents everywhere. Meat and its products, and eggs seem to be uncommon breakfast foods. The urban subjects had a more adequate energy intake at breakfast, but better food choices were observed among rural subjects.

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“…etc.) influence dietary behaviour (Brady et al, 2000;Harnack et al, 1997;Norton et al, 2000;O'Dea and Caputi, 2001).…”

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Breakfast Food Patterns Among Urban and Rural Croatian Schoolchildren

Barić

Šatalić

2003

Nutr Health

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“…Collectively, parental dietary behaviours, food provisioning, communication styles, and TV viewing behaviour accounted for more variance in child food and health outcomes than any other independent variables explored in the included studies (Bolton 1983;Ritchey & Olson, 1983;Buijzen, Schuurman, & Bornhof, 2008;Norton, Falciglia and Ricketts 2000). Other reported influencing factors were peers and friends and children's own sedentary TV viewing behaviours (Dietz & Gortmaker, 1985;Norton, Falciglia, & Ricketts, 2000;Wong, Hei, Qaqundah et al, 1992;Coon, Goldberg, Roger et al, 2001;Gracey, Stanley, Burke et al, 1996). The weight of evidence was assessed as modest but did indicate that food promotion can act as a significant independent determinant of children's food behaviours and health status.…”

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Systematic reviews of the evidence on the nature, extent and effects of food marketing to children. A retrospective summary

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A 2009 systematic review of the international evidence on food and beverage marketing to children is the most recent internationally comprehensive review of the evidence base. Its findings are consistent with other independent, rigorous reviews conducted during the period 2003-2012. Food promotions have a direct effect on children's nutrition knowledge, preferences, purchase behaviour, consumption patterns and diet-related health. Current marketing practice predominantly promotes low nutrition foods and beverages. Rebalancing the food marketing landscape' is a recurring policy aim of interventions aimed at constraining food and beverage promotions to children. The collective review evidence on marketing practice indicates little progress towards policy aims has been achieved during the period 2003-2012. There is a gap in the evidence base on how substantive policy implementation can be achieved. We recommend a priority for future policy relevant research is a greater emphasis on translational research. A global framework for co-ordinated intervention to constrain unhealthy food marketing which has received high level support provides valuable insight on some aspects of immediate implementation research priorities

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“…Yet, according to the empirical literature [41], food advertising can influence children's preferences either way—healthier or unhealthier preferences [42]. Children also imitate their parents' (and other adult caretakers') food styles and learn by observation, meaning that they prefer eating fruits and vegetables if their parents do so.…”

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Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Food Advertising on Children’s Knowledge about and Preferences for Healthful Food

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To understand the rising prevalence of childhood obesity in affluent societies, it is necessary to take into account the growing obesity infrastructure, which over past decades has developed into an obesogenic environment. This study examines the effects of one of the constituent factors of consumer societies and a potential contributory factor to childhood obesity: commercial food communication targeted to children. Specifically, it investigates the impact of TV advertising on children's food knowledge and food preferences and correlates these findings with their weight status. Evaluations of traditional information- and education-based interventions suggest that they may not sustainably change food patterns. Based on prior consumer research, we propose five hypotheses, which we then test using a subsample from the IDEFICS study, a large-scale pan-European intervention study on childhood obesity. The results indicate that advertising has divergent effects on children's food knowledge and preferences and that food knowledge is unrelated to food preferences. This finding has important implications for both future research and public policy.

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Motivational determinants of food preferences in adolescents and pre‐adolescents

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Breakfast Food Patterns Among Urban and Rural Croatian Schoolchildren

Breakfast Food Patterns Among Urban and Rural Croatian Schoolchildren

Systematic reviews of the evidence on the nature, extent and effects of food marketing to children. A retrospective summary

Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Food Advertising on Children’s Knowledge about and Preferences for Healthful Food

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