Nurturing Children's Healthy Eating: Position statement

Haines, Jess; Haycraft, Emma; Lytle, Leslie A.; Nicklaus, Sophie; Kok, F.J.; Merdji, Mohamed; Fisberg, Mauro; Moreno, Luis A.; Goulet, O.; Hughes, Sheryl O.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.02.007

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“…This has direct implications on healthy food choices and diets. Haines et al (2019) notably recognise that not only do financial limitations influence the quality of diet and home food environments, but so does the emotional environment. As parental stress levels increase (due to a variety of factors), fast food consumption increases, as well as family meals becoming less healthy and occurring less frequently (Haines et al 2019).…”

Section: Food Choicesmentioning

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“…Haines et al (2019) notably recognise that not only do financial limitations influence the quality of diet and home food environments, but so does the emotional environment. As parental stress levels increase (due to a variety of factors), fast food consumption increases, as well as family meals becoming less healthy and occurring less frequently (Haines et al 2019). In addition, the nature of how they consume their meals also plays an important role, with Heidelberger and Smith (2015) finding that students were eating with their siblings more often than their parents as well as often while watching television.…”

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Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

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The majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for young people to experience and interact with nature are greatly diminished. With mounting evidence of positive health benefits from interaction with nature, it is feared that this disconnect will have longterm implications for the health and wellbeing of future populations. Adolescence is a particularly crucial period of socialization when young people learn and develop a healthy relationship with food (which is inextricably a part of nature). The connection with food is related to the concept of 'foodscape', which can be defined as the places and spaces where food is acquired, prepared, talked about or some form of meaning is gathered. Historically, research has studied effects of nature connection and foodscapes on wellbeing as separate fields of research, when in reality there are many commonalities between them. Young people represent future households, yet little is understood about their perspectives on, and experiences of, their foodscape, or potential drivers in the nature, food and health nexus. The aims of this research study, therefore, are to identify relationships between nature relatedness, foodscape and perceived wellbeing in adolescents; and how these relationships may be shaped by learning opportunities within the school and home environment. Adolescents from three state high schools with differing foodscapes in South East Queensland, Australia, participated in the study. One school was in a rural area surrounded by large-scale agricultural industry and natural vegetation, and the other two schools were based in nature-poor urban areas, one with agricultural programs offered by the school, and one without. A mixed methods approach was used that included a foodscape assessment, surveys and photovoice. The foodscape assessment provided a novel baseline measure for the three differing foodscapes that adolescents are exposed to. Across all schools, 59 students and potential role models (31 parents and 91 classroom teachers) completed online surveys including measures of food literacy, nature relatedness, wellbeing, healthy eating attitudes, behaviours and decisions. This was complemented by photovoice with thirty-two students who took photographs of what 'food in my life' meant to them and subsequently discussed these images in semi-structured interviews. This research project found significant correlations between adolescent nature relatedness and wellbeing. These correlations occur across all three foodscapes. Most adolescents felt that food connected them with nature; however urban students were less likely than rural students to mention specifically that food comes from nature. Although the food literacy scores were not significantly different between the schools, a divergence became apparent between the rural and urban adolescents in relation to food system awareness. Interestingly, positive healthy eating attitudes and confidence Publications included in this thesis No publications included.

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Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

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“…In addition, the educational level of the mother is of influence on their food choice for their children (Craig et al, 2010;Chen et al, 2019;van der Velde et al, 2019;Damen t al., 2019b). Also the family structure, including the presence of siblings has been shown to influcence eating habits of children (Haines et al, 2019, Damen et al, 2020b.…”

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“…In the home environment the influence on food choices of family members, including siblings, is constantly present (Horst et al, 2007;Holsten et al, 2012;Bogl et al, 2017), an influence which also continues to exist later in life (Pachucki et al, 2011). For the development of healthy dietary behaviors among children, the home environment is considered as an important setting (Haines et al, 2019). Mothers are mainly responsible for providing foods and snacks to their young children (Johnson et al, 2011;Hardcastle and Blake, 2016;Kueppers et al, 2018), although the role of fathers in providing foods becomes more relevant (Khandpur et al, 2014;Fielding-Singh, 2017).…”

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“…Family structure, including the presence of siblings and parents' marital status, has been shown to influence eating habits (Haines et al, 2019) as well as childhood obesity (Park and Cormier, 2018). The review of Park and Cormier (2018), including six relevant studies on child's birth order and obesity, reported that the youngest child in the household was more likely to be overweight or obese compared to the middle or oldest child (Ochiai et al, 2012;Haugaard et al, 2013;Mosli et al, 2015;Mosli et al, 2016).…”

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As a mother, I prefer to give a healthy snack, however... : Mothers’ considerations and value conflicts while providing snacks to their 2-7-year-old children

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The combined effect of family environment and parents' characteristics on the use of food to soothe children

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Sospedra,

Oliver‐Roig

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Food Science & Nutrition

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Parental feeding practices, such as the use of food to soothe, can be shaped by various factors, including the family environment and parents' psychological characteristics and capacities. To our knowledge, the combined effect of these factors has not been studied. Furthermore, parental feeding practices have mainly been studied in women, resulting in a gender gap in the research. This study aims to investigate the combined effect of family environment and parental characteristics on the likelihood of using food to soothe children, taking the gender of both parents into account. This cross‐sectional study included a sample of 846 parents (36.3% men) of 1‐year‐old children from different regions of Spain. Participants completed an online survey that included questionnaires to measure whether parents used food to soothe children, the family environment, parents' characteristics, and their psychological capacities. Binary logistic regression analyses were performed to identify associations between the variables. The final model showed that, within the family environment, higher levels of dyadic adjustment between couples (OR = 0.965; p = .026) were associated with a reduced likelihood of using food to soothe children, whereas the psychological characteristic of parental fatigue (OR = 1.053; p = .007) appeared to be associated with an increased likelihood. Also associated with an increased likelihood of this practice were higher parental sense of competence (OR = 1.028; p = .029) and the attention dimension of emotional intelligence (OR = 1.043; p = .007). Our study suggests that using food to soothe children may be influenced by factors at different levels, from the quality and adjustment of the couple's relationship to parental fatigue, self‐competence, and emotional intelligence. For future research, it may be worthwhile contextualizing parental practices to gain a better understanding of children's behavior.

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Nurturing Children's Healthy Eating: Position statement

Cited by 151 publications

References 134 publications

Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

Adolescent food environment and wellbeing: understanding attitudes and food choice predictors in different learning environments

As a mother, I prefer to give a healthy snack, however... : Mothers’ considerations and value conflicts while providing snacks to their 2-7-year-old children

The combined effect of family environment and parents' characteristics on the use of food to soothe children

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