Maternal feeding practices and children's food intake during an ad libitum buffet meal: Results from the GUSTO cohort.

Maternal feeding practices and children's food intake during an ad libitum buffet meal: Results from the GUSTO cohort.

Appetite

10.1016/j.appet.2019.104371

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104371

Lisa R. Fries, Mei June Chan, Phaik Ling Quah, Jia Ying Toh, Anna Fogel, Ai Ting Goh, Izzuddin M. Aris, Birit F.P. Broekman, Shirong Cai, Mya Thway Tint, Yap Seng Chong, Lynette P. Shek, Yung Seng Lee, Fabian Yap, Kok Hian Tan, Peter D. Gluckman, Keith M. Godfrey, Irma Silva-Zolezzi, Ciaran G. Forde, Mary F. F. Chong

children

16 July 2019

Fries, L. R., Chan, M. J., Quah, P. L., Toh, J. Y., Fogel, A., Goh, A. T., Aris, I. M., Broekman, B., Cai, S., Tint, M. T., Chong, Y. S., Shek, L. P., Lee, Y. S., Yap, F., Tan, K. H., Gluckman, P. D., Godfrey, K. M., Silva Zolezzi, I., Forde, C. G., & Chong, M. (2019). Maternal feeding practices and children's food intake during an ad libitum buffet meal: Results from the GUSTO cohort. Appetite, 142, 104371. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2019.104371

Parents' feeding practices have been shown to be associated with children's food intake and weight status, but little is known about feeding practices in Asian countries. This study used behavioral observation to explore the feeding practices of 201 mothers of 4.5 year-old children in Singapore during an ad libitum buffet lunch. Feeding practices were coded from videos, focusing on behaviors used to prompt the child to eat more food (autonomy-supportive and coercive-controlling prompts to eat, suggesting items from buffet), those to reduce intake (restriction, questioning food choice), and those related to eating rate (hurrying or slowing child eating). Child outcome measures included energy consumed, variety of food items selected, and BMI. Maternal restriction and trying to slow child eating rate were associated with higher energy consumed by the child (r = 0.19 and 0.13, respectively; p 

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1. Supported by the translational Clinical Research (TCR) Flagship Program on Developmental Pathways to Metabolic Disease funded by the National Research Foundation (NRF) and administered by the National Medical Research Council(NMRC), Singapore-NMRC/TCR/004-NUS/2008; NMRC/TCR/012-NUHS/2014. 2. A*STAR and Nestec SA.: Nestec–Epigen fund: ‘Child Eating Behavior & Obesity’ (G0067; BMSI/15-300-SICS) 3. KMG is supported by the National Institute for Health Research through the NIHR. Southampton Biomedical Research Centre and by the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013).

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