ResearchResearch EditorialParenting Style and Child Feeding Practices: Potential Mitigating Factors in the Etiology of Childhood Obesity
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Appetitive Traits and Child Obesity Risk: Genetics or Environment?
Separating genetic from environmental or learned risk factors for early childhood obesity has proven to be challenging. Research suggests that behaviors that are often considered to be environmental or learned obesity risk factors may in fact also be influenced by genetics. Appetitive traits have been recognized as having an impact on child food intake, therefore influencing child weight status (8). These traits include responsiveness to internal satiety cues, smell or taste of palatable foods
Considerations for Future Research of Familial Influences on Child Obesity Risk
Genetic predisposition for obesity, appetitive traits, and environmental influences can increase a child's risk for developing obesity. Research suggests that parenting styles and child-feeding practices may mediate these risk factors and play an important role in child obesity prevention. Child-feeding practices in particular may play a larger role in determining body fatness in children than variability in dietary intake, such as fat consumption (35, 36). Although an assessment of parenting
J. Stang is an associate professor, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
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Associations between supportive and undermining coparenting and controlling feeding practices
2021, AppetiteCitation Excerpt :Future longitudinal and/or observational studies may provide a more comprehensive picture of the relationship between coparenting and parental feeding practices. As childhood obesity continues to be a growing concern in the U.S. (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2018), it is well-known that parents play an important role in their children's feeding practices (Stang & Loth, 2011; Ventura & Birch, 2008; Vollmer & Mobley, 2013). However, there is a paucity of research that examines coparenting functioning in relation to controlling feeding practices.
Maternal body dissatisfaction in pregnancy, postpartum and early parenting: An overlooked factor implicated in maternal and childhood obesity risk
2020, AppetiteCitation Excerpt :The potential negative impact that maternal body dissatisfaction can have on mothers’ mental health (i.e., depression) and/or unhealthful eating behaviour (i.e., binge eating) may reduce her engagement in practices, such as breastfeeding, that assist to combat excess body weight (e.g., de Jager, Skouteris, Broadbent, Amir, & Mellor, 2013; Goldschmidt et al., 2014; Hauff & Demerath, 2012; Stice & Shaw, 2002; Torgersen et al., 2010). In turn, associations between maternal body image and factors implicated in health behaviour (i.e., mental health symptoms; disordered eating patterns) may influence the quality of early parent-child interactions, including potentially problematic child feeding practices (e.g., Bergmeier et al., 2016; Farrow & Blissett, 2005; Haire-Joshu & Tabak, 2016; McPhie, Skouteris, Daniels, & Jansen, 2014; Stang & Loth, 2011; Webb & Haycraft, 2019). Problematic parent-child interactions have been implicated in promoting childhood obesity risk (e.g., Anderson, Lemeshow, & Whitaker, 2014).
The Role of Parent-Adolescent Relationships in the Development of (Pre)Hypertension in Young Adulthood in the U.S.
2019, Journal of Adolescent HealthCitation Excerpt :Finally, our study indicated that parental control had a direct and protective effect on clinical/experienced hypertension. The results are consistent with previous studies, which have shown a negative correlation between parental control and monitoring and adverse health outcomes such as adolescent obesity [38,39]. Although, in our study, parental control appeared to be less effective than relationship quality when it came to regulating alcohol (consistent with Van Ryzin et al. study [21]), a possible measurement error in the control scale might exist.
J. Stang is an associate professor, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
K. A. Loth is a doctoral candidate, School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.