Parents play a critical role in the development of children's eating behaviours and weight
status, serving as providers, models and regulators of the food environment. Many research …

Despite emerging efforts to investigate the influence parents have on their children's weight
status and related dietary and activity behaviors, reviews regarding the role of general …

With recommendations to include parents as targets for childhood obesity interventions,
there is a need to review the relationship of general parenting influences on childhood …

Abstract “Tiger parenting,” as described by Chua (2011, Battle hymn of the tiger mother. New
York, NY: Penguin Press), has put parenting in Asian American families in the spotlight. The …

Background: Adolescents' eating disorders have been explored through various conceptual
and empirical models. Only recently, scientific literature in this area has more specifically …

Background Little is known about how factors within the general family environment are
associated with weight and related behaviors among adolescents/young adults. Methods …

Parents exert a strong influence on their children's diet. While authoritative parenting style is
linked to healthier weight and dietary outcomes in children, and authoritarian and …

Among early adolescents (10–14 years), poor diet quality along with physical inactivity can
contribute to an increased risk of obesity and associated biomarkers for chronic disease …

Given the emerging global childhood obesity epidemic and the specter of a generation of
children who will have a shorter life expectancy than that of their parents, recent research …

Background Parents play a critical role in their children's lifestyle habits. The objective was
to assess the effect of parenting style on the risk of childhood obesity, and to determine …