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The Effect of Food Environment, Eating Behavior and Pediatric Health

A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Public Health".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 August 2022) | Viewed by 8959

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Richard Boles

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Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Denver, CO 80045, USA
Interests: eating behaviors; prevention and treatment of pediatric obesity; home-based interventions; parenting practices for dietary intake

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The home food environment has been linked with key health behaviors related to pediatric growth and development. The physical and social home environments represent modifiable targets for preventive and treatment interventions for child weight management. The aim of this Special Issue is to extend the literature on the impact of home food environments (physically and socially) on child health and dietary intake via interactions with the engineering of home foods and parenting practices. The scope of this Special Issue will be generally focused to include a wide variety of topics that may include, without being limited to, the following:

  • Home food availability related to physical and mental health
  • Modifying the home food environment and parental feeding practices for all ages, ranging from infants to adolescents
  • Interventions designed to improve the nutritional quality of home foods and intake
  • Innovative assessment development and testing of the home food environment
  • Examinations of the home food environment for under-represented populations, including families with children who have intellectual or developmental disabilities, low-resource families of minority status, and rural environments.

Dr. Richard Boles
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • home food environment
  • home food quality
  • dietary intake
  • weight management
  • pediatric health
  • direct observation
  • child feeding
  • rural
  • intellectual and developmental disability

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Adolescent Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices of Healthy Eating: Findings of Qualitative Interviews among Hong Kong Families
by Kiki S. N. Liu, Julie Y. Chen, Kai-Sing Sun, Joyce P. Y. Tsang, Patrick Ip and Cindy L. K. Lam
Nutrients 2022, 14(14), 2857; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14142857 - 12 Jul 2022
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To tackle unhealthy eating among adolescents, it is crucial to understand the dietary knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) on which adolescent eating habits are based. This qualitative study identifies the gaps in KAP by exploring what Chinese adolescents know, perceive, and practice regarding [...] Read more.
To tackle unhealthy eating among adolescents, it is crucial to understand the dietary knowledge, attitudes, and practices (KAP) on which adolescent eating habits are based. This qualitative study identifies the gaps in KAP by exploring what Chinese adolescents know, perceive, and practice regarding healthy eating to better inform targeted interventions for this important health problem. Parent–adolescent dyads were purposively sampled based on, for example, the dietary intake, age, and gender of the adolescent and household income, and each completed a 30 to 60 min interview. Twelve themes were synthesized: knowledge: (1) dietary recommendations, (2) health outcomes of healthy eating, (3) nutrition content in food, and (4) access to healthy meals; attitudes: (5) outcome expectation for healthy eating, (6) food preferences, and (7) self-efficacy regarding adopting healthy eating; and practices: (8) going grocery shopping for healthy food, (9) eating home-prepared meals. (10) eating out in restaurants or consuming takeaway food, (11) fruit and vegetable consumption, and (12) snacking, perceived unhealthy eating to be low risk, made unhealthy choices regarding snacking and eating out, and had insufficient fruit and vegetable intake. Programs should emphasize the positive short-term health outcomes of healthy eating and empower adolescents to acquire food preparation skills to sustain healthy eating habits. Full article
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A Narrative Review of Dietary Assessment Tools for Preschool-Aged Children in the Home Environment
by Laura L. Bellows, Yuanying Lou, Rachel Nelson, Ligia I. Reyes, Renae C. Brown, Noereem Z. Mena and Richard E. Boles
Nutrients 2022, 14(22), 4793; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14224793 - 12 Nov 2022
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Preschool-aged children in the U.S. have suboptimal diets. Interventions to improve child nutrition focus on parents and their role in shaping social and physical home environments, which influence children’s eating behaviors. Dietary assessment tools selected to measure intervention objectives, and how results are [...] Read more.
Preschool-aged children in the U.S. have suboptimal diets. Interventions to improve child nutrition focus on parents and their role in shaping social and physical home environments, which influence children’s eating behaviors. Dietary assessment tools selected to measure intervention objectives, and how results are interpreted in key findings, are essential when examining children’s diets. The objectives of this review were to (1) describe dietary assessment tools used in intervention studies in young children focused within the home environment; and (2) examine how the application of these dietary assessment tools addressed intervention objectives. PubMed and Web of Science were searched for English-language nutrition intervention studies that included children aged 2–5 years, had a home environment component, used a dietary assessment tool, and reported on diet-related outcomes. Seventeen studies were included. Intervention objectives focused on overall diet, specific food groups, eating occasions, and obesity prevention/treatment. Concordance of key findings with intervention objectives, type of tool used, and multiple tools within the same study varied with 8 studies aligning in objective and tool, 1 discordant in both, and 8 partially concordant or too broad to determine. This review highlights current challenges in measuring dietary intake in preschoolers and provides recommendations for alternative applications and strategies. Full article
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Bidirectional Associations between Parental Non-Responsive Feeding Practices and Child Eating Behaviors: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Longitudinal Prospective Studies
by Jian Wang, Bingqian Zhu, Ruxing Wu, Yan-Shing Chang, Yang Cao and Daqiao Zhu
Nutrients 2022, 14(9), 1896; https://doi.org/10.3390/nu14091896 - 30 Apr 2022
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Background: Parental non-responsive feeding practices and child eating behaviors both play significant roles in childhood obesity. However, their longitudinal relationships are less clear. This systematic review aimed to examine their bidirectional associations. Methods: A systematic search of five databases was conducted from inception [...] Read more.
Background: Parental non-responsive feeding practices and child eating behaviors both play significant roles in childhood obesity. However, their longitudinal relationships are less clear. This systematic review aimed to examine their bidirectional associations. Methods: A systematic search of five databases was conducted from inception to February 2022. Data synthesis was performed using a semi-quantitative and quantitative approach. Results: A total of 14 studies with 15348 respondents were included. A total of 94 longitudinal effects from 14 studies of parental non-responsive feeding practices on child eating behaviors were investigated, and 19 statistically significant effects were discovered. Seventy-seven longitudinal effects from nine studies of child eating behaviors on parental feeding practices were examined, with fifteen being statistically significant. The pooled results of meta-analysis showed five statistically significant associations: parental restrictive feeding positively predicted child enjoyment of food (β = 0.044; 95% CI: 0.004, 0.085); use of food as a reward positively predicted child emotional eating (β = 0.09; 95% CI: 0.04, 0.15); child food responsiveness positively predicted restrictive feeding (β = 0.04; 95% CI: 0.02, 0.06); use food as a reward (β = 0.06; 95% CI: 0.03, 0.10). In addition, the pooled effects showed that child satiety responsiveness negatively predicted restrictive feeding (β = −0.05; 95% CI: −0.08, −0.01). Conclusions: The bidirectional relationships between parental non-responsive feeding practices and child eating behaviors are inconsistent and a few showed statistical significance. Theory-driven longitudinal studies using validated instruments and controlling for potential confounders are needed to unveil their relationships and provide evidence for obesity prevention interventions. Full article
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