Supporting early childhood routines to promote cardiovascular health across the life course

L Kim, C Duh-Leong, N Nagpal, R Ortiz… - Current Problems in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Optimal cardiovascular health is an essential component of human health and well-being
across the life course. Heart healthy practices around diet, physical activity, and sleep early …

Early life factors that affect obesity and the need for complex solutions

KD Hesketh, M Zheng, KJ Campbell - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2024 - nature.com
The prevalence of obesity increases with age but is apparent even in early life. Early
childhood is a critical period for development that is known to influence future health. Even …

Parenting styles, food parenting practices and dietary intakes of preschoolers

B Chen, K Kattelmann, C Comstock, L McCormack… - Nutrients, 2021 - mdpi.com
Previous evidence suggests that children's eating behaviors were largely influenced by the
parent and home eating structure. This study examined the relationship between parenting …

Utilising an integrated approach to developing liking for and consumption of vegetables in children.

LR Chawner, MM Hetherington - Physiology & Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Children eat too few vegetables and this is attributed to disliked flavours and texture as well
as low energy density. Vegetables confer selective health benefits over other foods and so …

Parenting styles and their associations with children's body composition, activity patterns, fitness, diet, health, and academic achievement

A Watson, D Dumuid, C Maher, F Fraysse… - Childhood …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
Background: Evidence regarding the impact of parenting style on health and other outcomes
is inconsistent and limited by measurement quality and type. This study will examine …

Inverse association between health literacy and obesity among children in Greece: a school-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study

A Kanellopoulou, V Notara… - Health Education & …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Children's health literacy is a crucial pillar of health. This study is aimed to examine the
association between health literacy and weight status among Greek schoolchildren aged 10 …

Relationship between family-related factors and functional constipation among Chinese preschoolers: a case–control study

Y Niu, T Liu, N Ran, K Li, Y Sun, X Wang, K Guo… - BMC pediatrics, 2022 - Springer
Background Constipation is one of the common symptoms in childhood. The prevalence of
FC is about 0.5% to 32% and still on the rise according to global statistics. The aim of this …

What works to improve nutrition and food sustainability across the first 2000 days of life: A rapid review

R Laws, M Adam, E Esdaile, P Love, KJ Campbell - Nutrients, 2022 - mdpi.com
Informed by the Innocenti framework, this rapid review of systematic reviews (n= 60) and
sentinel grey literature (n= 27) synthesises the evidence of what works to improve nutrition …

Groups of mothers based on feeding practices and their associations with dietary quality of pre-school children: A latent profile analysis

AJ Burnett, KE Lacy, CG Russell, AC Spence… - Appetite, 2022 - Elsevier
Parents' feeding practices are associated with children's food intake. However, little is known
about the patterns of feeding practices used by groups of mothers or how these groupings of …

Can food parenting practices explain the association between parental education and children's food intake? The Feel4Diabetes-study

P Flores-Barrantes, C Mavrogianni, I Iglesia… - Public Health …, 2022 - cambridge.org
Objective: This study aimed to investigate the mediating role of food parenting practices
(FPP), including home availability of different types of foods and drinks, parental modelling …