Pressure to eat and restriction are associated with child eating behaviours and maternal concern about child weight, but not child body mass index, in 2- to 4-year-old children

Gregory, Jane; Paxton, Susan J.; Brozovic, Anna M.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.02.013

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“…In support of these rather pessimistic hypotheses, higher pressure shows associations with parent reports of lower child enjoyment of food, and higher satiety sensitivity, slowness in eating and food fussiness (Gregory et al, 2010b;McPhie et al, 2011;Webber et al, 2010a), greater child dietary restraint, disinhibited eating, and emotional eating (Carper et al, 2000), greater food avoidance behaviours (Powell et al, 2011), greater neophobia (fear of new foods) and intake of unhealthy snack foods (Brown et al, 2008), and lower fruit and vegetable intake Wardle et al, 2005;Wyse et al, 2011). Johnson & Birch (1994) additionally found that high scores on a general scale of parental control over feeding (e.g. '…”

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Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Carnell

Kim

Pryor

2012

International Review of Psychiatry

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We live in a world replete with opportunities to overeat highly calorifi c, palatable foods -yet not everyone becomes obese. Why? We propose that individuals show differences in appetitive traits (e.g. food cue responsiveness, satiety sensitivity) that manifest early in life and predict their eating behaviours and weight trajectories. What determines these traits? Parental feeding restriction is associated with higher child adiposity, pressure to eat with lower adiposity, and both strategies with less healthy eating behaviours, while authoritative feeding styles coincide with more positive outcomes. But, on the whole, twin and family studies argue that nature has a greater infl uence than nurture on adiposity and eating behaviour, and behavioural investigations of genetic variants that are robustly associated with obesity (e.g. FTO) confi rm that genes infl uence appetite. Meanwhile, a growing body of neuroimaging studies in adults, children and high risk populations suggests that structural and functional variation in brain networks associated with reward, emotion and control might also predict appetite and obesity, and show genetic infl uence. Together these different strands of evidence support a biobehavioural risk model of obesity development. Parental feeding recommendations should therefore acknowledge the powerful -but modifi able -contribution of genetic and neurological infl uences to children ' s eating behaviour.

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Section: Pressure To Eatmentioning

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Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Carnell

Kim

Pryor

2012

International Review of Psychiatry

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“…Mothers generally use more restriction when they perceive their child as overweight or when they are concerned about the child becoming overweight in the future. 35,[45][46][47][48] Pressuring is more common in mothers who perceive their child as underweight. 35,45,47 However, most of these studies have focused on higher income white families who are unlikely to be food insecure.…”

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“…35,[45][46][47][48] Pressuring is more common in mothers who perceive their child as underweight. 35,45,47 However, most of these studies have focused on higher income white families who are unlikely to be food insecure. This may help explain the seemingly counterintuitive relationship between maternal concern for the child becoming overweight and pressuring feeding style in our sample.…”

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Food Insecurity and Obesogenic Maternal Infant Feeding Styles and Practices in Low-Income Families

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Food insecurity has been linked to childhood obesity in a number of studies. Few studies have explored potential pathways through which food insecurity is related to child weight, especially in low-income families with young infants. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:We found that food insecurity was related to maternal controlling feeding styles and concerns about the infants' future weight. Early obesity prevention should aim to decrease food insecurity and to reduce controlling feeding styles in families who remain food insecure. abstract OBJECTIVES: We explored the relationship between household food insecurity and maternal feeding styles, infant feeding practices, and perceptions and attitudes about infant weight in low-income mothers. METHODS: Mothers participating in the Special Supplemental FoodProgram for Women, Infants, and Children with infants aged between 2 weeks and 6 months were interviewed. By using regression analyses, the following relationships were examined between food insecurity and: (1) controlling feeding styles (restrictive and pressuring); (2) infant feeding practices, including breastfeeding, juice consumption, and adding cereal to the bottle; and (3) perceptions and attitudes about infant weight. Path analysis was used to determine if perceptions and attitudes about infant weight mediated the relationships between food insecurity and controlling feeding styles. ). This concern mediated the relationship between food insecurity and both restrictive (P = .009) and pressuring (P = .01) feeding styles. RESULTS:CONCLUSIONS: Increased concern about future overweight and controlling feeding styles represent potential mechanisms by which food insecurity could be related to obesity. Obesity prevention should aim to decrease food insecurity and to reduce controlling feeding styles in families who remain food insecure. Pediatrics 2012;130:254-261

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“…For girls, it was perceived pressure to eat more food which was related to higher levels of eating psychopathology, while for boys, greater restriction of food was linked to eating psychopathology. Pressure to eat is often used with children who are underweight (26,27) and it is possible that parents might be using this practice to encourage adolescent girls who may be restricting their intake to eat more. Interestingly, boys' perception of parental food restriction was related to greater levels of eating psychopathology.…”

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Adolescents' Level of Eating Psychopathology Is Related to Perceptions of Their Parents' Current Feeding Practices

Haycraft

Goodwin

Meyer

2014

Journal of Adolescent Health

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Pressure to eat and restriction are associated with child eating behaviours and maternal concern about child weight, but not child body mass index, in 2- to 4-year-old children

Cited by 152 publications

References 33 publications

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: A biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity

Food Insecurity and Obesogenic Maternal Infant Feeding Styles and Practices in Low-Income Families

Adolescents' Level of Eating Psychopathology Is Related to Perceptions of Their Parents' Current Feeding Practices

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