To examine the unique and additive associations of family functioning and parenting
practices with adolescent disordered eating behaviors (ie, dieting, unhealthy weight control …

Indian adolescents' over reliance on foods such as nutrient-poor snacks, sugar-sweetened
beverages and take-away foods puts them at significant risk of obesity and several diet …

Introduction Families are the most proximal and powerful context for the development,
promotion, and disruption of health of individuals across the life course. Despite families' …

Background Early feeding practices lay the foundation for children's eating habits and
weight gain. Questionnaires are available to assess parental feeding but overlapping and …

This paper aims to describe the prevalence of parent-adolescent conversations about
eating, physical activity and weight across sociodemographic characteristics and to examine …

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of mortality in the world, and the increasing
burden is largely a consequence of modifiable behavioral risk factors that interact with …

BACKGROUND: Research on family meals in the past decade has shown a positive
association between family meal frequency and adolescent healthy dietary intake. However …

Certain child eating behaviors (eg, food fussiness, emotional overeating, and disruptive
mealtime behaviors) can create challenges for caregivers and result in short-and long-term …

This meta-analysis attempts to offer an overall cumulative effect estimate of the parental style–
consumer socialization relationship (s) across 73 studies examining child outcomes …

Objective: Parenting styles such as authoritarian, disengaged, or permissive are thought to
be associated with greater adolescent obesity risk than an authoritative style. This study …