Understanding Food Fussiness and Its Implications for Food Choice, Health, Weight and Interventions in Young Children: The Impact of Professor Jane Wardle

Gibson, E.L.; Cooke, Lucy

doi:10.1007/s13679-017-0248-9

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“…One factor not measured here that could disrupt simple associations between overweight and obesity, healthy or unhealthy snacking, parental practices, and indeed fruit and vegetable intake, is the children's fussy eating tendencies, since fussy eaters will tend to avoid snacking on healthy foods, yet also tend to be thinner [64,65]. In fact, parents often struggle to find successful strategies for promoting healthy eating in picky/fussy children [66].…”

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Influences of Parental Snacking-Related Attitudes, Behaviours and Nutritional Knowledge on Young Children’s Healthy and Unhealthy Snacking: The ToyBox Study

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This study investigated parental influences on preschool children’s healthy and unhealthy snacking in relation to child obesity in a large cross-sectional multinational sample. Parents and 3–5 year-old child dyads (n = 5185) in a kindergarten-based study provided extensive sociodemographic, dietary practice and food intake data. Parental feeding practices that were derived from questionnaires were examined for associations with child healthy and unhealthy snacking in adjusted multilevel models, including child estimated energy expenditure, parental education, and nutritional knowledge. Parental healthy and unhealthy snacking was respectively associated with their children’s snacking (both p < 0.0001). Making healthy snacks available to their children was specifically associated with greater child healthy snack intake (p < 0.0001). Conversely, practices that were related to unhealthy snacking, i.e., being permissive about unhealthy snacking and acceding to child demands for unhealthy snacks, were associated with greater consumption of unhealthy snacks by children, but also less intake of healthy snacks (all p < 0.0001). Parents having more education and greater nutritional knowledge of snack food recommendations had children who ate more healthy snacks (all p < 0.0001) and fewer unhealthy snacks (p = 0.002, p < 0.0001, respectively). In the adjusted models, child obesity was not related to healthy or unhealthy snack intake in these young children. The findings support interventions that address parental practices and distinguish between healthy and unhealthy snacking to influence young children’s dietary patterns.

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confidence: 97%

Influences of Parental Snacking-Related Attitudes, Behaviours and Nutritional Knowledge on Young Children’s Healthy and Unhealthy Snacking: The ToyBox Study

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“…Despite inconsistencies in defining and measuring fussy eating, it has been associated with family stress and conflict at mealtimes as well as high levels of parent concern and frustration [4,8]. Fussy eating and food neophobia have also been associated with child anxiety and feelings of disgust [1,7].…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Fussy eating and food neophobia have also been associated with child anxiety and feelings of disgust [1,7]. Health risks associated with fussy eating are usually low [8,9], however fussy eaters do tend to have lower intakes of vitamin E, vitamin C, folate and fibre which may lead to a weak immune response and digestive problems [1,2].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Childhood fussy/picky eating behaviours: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies

Wolstenholme

Kelly

Hennessy

et al. 2020

Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act

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Fussy/picky eating behaviours are common across childhood. Recent reviews of the fussy eating literature focus on quantitative research and do not adequately account for families' subjective experiences, perceptions and practices. This review aims to synthesise the increasing volume of qualitative work on fussy eating. A systematic search of relevant databases was carried out. Studies were included if they were qualitative, published since 2008, with a primary focus on families' experiences, perceptions and practices regarding fussy eating, food neophobia, or food refusal in children (aged one to young adult). Studies with clinical samples, or relating to children under one year were excluded. Ten studies were eligible for this review and were synthesised using meta-ethnography (developed by Noblit and Hare). This review provides a comprehensive description and definition of fussy eating behaviours. A conceptual model of the family experience of fussy eating was developed, illustrating relationships between child characteristics (including fussy eating behaviours), parent feeding beliefs, parent feeding practices, mealtime emotions and parent awareness of food preference development. Our synthesis identified two ways in which fussy eating relates to mealtime emotions (directly and via parent feeding practices) and three distinct categories of parent beliefs that relate to fussy eating (self-efficacy, attributions and beliefs about hunger regulation). The model proposes pathways which could be explored further in future qualitative and quantitative studies, and suggests that parent beliefs, emotions, and awareness should be targeted alongside parent feeding practices to increase effectiveness of interventions. The majority of studies included in this review focus on preschool children and all report the parent perspective. Further research is required to understand the child's perspective, and experiences of fussy eating in later childhood.

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“…Child nutrition issues are always becomes concern in child health science at this time. With the observation of growth can avoid obesity and malnutrition (Gibson and Cooke, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

Knowledge of Clean and Healthy Behavior and Quality of Life among School-Children

Vionalita¹,

Kusumaningtiar²

2017

Proceedings of the Health Science International Conference (HSIC 2017)

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Understanding Food Fussiness and Its Implications for Food Choice, Health, Weight and Interventions in Young Children: The Impact of Professor Jane Wardle

Cited by 57 publications

References 114 publications

Influences of Parental Snacking-Related Attitudes, Behaviours and Nutritional Knowledge on Young Children’s Healthy and Unhealthy Snacking: The ToyBox Study

Influences of Parental Snacking-Related Attitudes, Behaviours and Nutritional Knowledge on Young Children’s Healthy and Unhealthy Snacking: The ToyBox Study

Childhood fussy/picky eating behaviours: a systematic review and synthesis of qualitative studies

Knowledge of Clean and Healthy Behavior and Quality of Life among School-Children

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