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Controlling feeding practices: cause or consequence of early child weight?
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posted on 2012-08-22, 09:22 authored by Claire V. Farrow, Jacqueline BlissettINTRODUCTION. The exertion of control during child feeding has been associated with both underweight and overweight during childhood. What is as-yet unclear is whether controlling child feeding practices causally affect child weight or whether the use of control may be a reactive response to concerns about high or low child weight. The aims of this study were to explore the direction of causality in these relationships during infancy.
METHODS. Sixty-two women gave informed consent to take part in this longitudinal study that spanned from birth to 2 years of child age. Mothers completed the Child Feeding Questionnaire at 1 year, and their children were weighed at 1 and 2 years of age. Child weight scores were converted into standardized z scores that accounted for child age and gender.
RESULTS. Controlling for child weight at 1 year, the use of pressure to eat and restriction at 1 year significantly predicted lower child weight at 2 years.
CONCLUSIONS. Controlling feeding practices in infancy have an impact on children's weight at 2 years. The use of restrictive child feeding practices during infancy predicts lower child weight at age 2 years, which may reinforce mothers' use of this strategy in the longer term despite its potential association with disinhibition and greater child weight in later childhood.
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- Sport, Exercise and Health Sciences
Citation
FARROW, C.V. and BLISSETT, J., 2008. Controlling feeding practices: cause or consequence of early child weight? Pediatrics, 121 (1), pp. e164 - e169.Publisher
© American Academy of PediatricsVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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2008Notes
This article is closed access. It was published in the journal Pediatrics [© American Academy of Pediatrics] and the definitive version is available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1542/peds.2006-3437ISSN
0031-4005eISSN
0210-5721Publisher version
Language
- en