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Research indicates that parental control and parental modelling are key factors in shaping a child’s eating behaviour. To date, however, little is known about how these factors influence a child’s diet once they have left home. This prospective study evaluated the extent to which a parent’s own behaviour and their use of control over food whilst their child was still living at home predicted their...
Fruit/vegetable consumption in childhood has wide ranging implications including decreased risk of childhood obesity. Few studies have sought to predict children’s intention and behaviour related to fruit/vegetable consumption in the context of weight status. This study sought to test the utility of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) for the prediction of these variables. Following local ethics...
With alarming childhood obesity trends in many European countries, strategic health policy documents have highlighted schools as a protected environment where children should learn healthy diet and lifestyle habits. Research shows that dietary intakes in school children can be improved by providing healthier food choices at school in an attractive and accessible way. We screened public databases,...
Impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) is a strong risk factor for Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. The aim of this study was to validate and implement a previously published fasting predictive tool for IGT in obese children: TG>1.17mmol /L, which showed a 71.4[57.8–85.1]% sensitivity and a 64.1[57.7–70.4]% specificity in 259 obese Canadian children. The possible contribution of other metabolic...
This study aimed to determine whether background music genre can alter food perception and acceptance, but also to determine how the effect of background music can vary as a function of type of food (emotional versus non-emotional foods) and source of music performer (single versus multiple performers). The music piece was edited into four genres: classical, jazz, hip-hop, and rock, by either a single...
Recent data showed that some bone related markers correlate with BMI in the pediatric population. Moreover, obesity in childhood increase the risk of atherosclerosis development by induced oxidative stress. The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between bone turnover markers, nutritional status and oxidative stress in obese children comparing to the lean controls. Bone turnover markers...
The REPOP was created in 2007 to offer to overweight children living in Upper Normandy (France) a multidisciplinary follow-up, in their living area, according to national good practice guidelines. The network includes primary care physicians, physiotherapists, psychologists, nutritionists and sport educators. It offers both individual care (8 consultations with a physician and a nutritionist over...
Subscales of the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ), the most used assessment of children eating behaviors worldwide, are predictive of pediatric obesity. This population-based study has examined the independent contributions of parental BMI, education, and country of origin to child CEBQ subscales scores. Mothers (n=876) to 4-year-olds (48% girls) from Sweden’s most third largest city (Malmö)...
Understanding eating behavior is not possible without studying individual reward circuits. Reward Sensitivity (RS) and Punishment Sensitivity (PS) are psychological concepts reflecting sensitivity of the neurological Behavioral Approach (BAS) and Inhibition (BIS) Systems respectively (Gray, 1987). Under normal circumstances, BIS and BAS independently drive behavior, but in extreme cases, one overactive...
Objectives: Eating styles have been studied in both Obesity (OB) and Eating Disorders (ED), but they have not been examined in these two weight conditions together. The present study explores differences in eating styles in an Anorexia Nervosa (AN) and OB sample, compared to Healthy Controls (HC), and it analyses their relationship with Body Mass Index (BMI) and personality traits. Method: The total...
The objective of this study was to test if proximity of a food or preference for a food influences food intake in a competitive food environment in which one low calorie/low fat (apple slices) and one higher calorie/higher fat (buttered popcorn) food was available in the same environment. The proximity of popcorn and apple slices was manipulated and 56 participants were randomly assigned to groups...
Children who are obese have impaired physical fitness. Balance and coordination are key parameters of fitness and when impaired can lead to falls and musculoskeletal injury. The aim was to investigate whether children who are obese have impaired balance and to explore whether balance impairment is associated with quality of life. Children were recruited from an obesity clinic and were classified as...
Elaborated Intrusion Theory (EI) postulates that imagery is central to craving, therefore a visually based task should decrease craving and craving imagery. This study provides the first laboratory test of this hypothesis in naturally occurring, rather than artificially induced, cravings. Participants reported if they were experiencing a craving and rated the strength, vividness and intrusiveness...
Objective: There have been repeated calls from health professionals and policy-makers to clarify the side-effects of the increasingly popular consumption trend of alcohol mixed with energy drinks (AmED). There is a dearth of research assessing the differential effects of AmED relative to alcohol by comparing self-reported psychological and physiological outcomes whilst under the influence of these...
Obesity is associated with an increased risk for cardiovascular disease. Body mass index (BMI) and waist circumference (WC) are good predictors. This prospective study aims to determine the efficacy of a six-month biopsychosocial intervention to decrease this predictors in children and adolescents with excess weight refractory to conventional treatment (dietary and/or exercise). 127 Patients were...
BeeZee Bodies is 17-week family-based intervention programme in deprived community settings for 7–15yr olds referred by a health professional. We evaluated the reach and completion of the programmes 2010–2012. Socio-demographic data were collected from the parent/guardian and IMD score calculated from the home postcode. BMI was expressed as the sex- and age-specific standard deviation from expected...
Health care workers’ (HCW) experiences of working with families with obese children have received little attention. Through understanding how to conceive encounters with the families, treatment may be improved. A qualitative design with three focus group interviews and an analysis inspired by Malterud’s guidelines was used. Six district nurses, one GP, one physiotherapist and one nurse participated,...
The burden of disease from childhood obesity is considerable worldwide, as it is associated with several co-morbidities, such as dyslipidemia, hypertension, type 2 diabetes (T2DM), orthopedic and psychosocial problems. We aimed to determine the prevalence of these complications in a population of overweight and obese children and adolescents. This is a cohort study including 774 new patients (1.7–17...
Cue reactivity may be determined by the ability of cues to evoke expectations that a reward will be imminently received. To test this possibility, the current study examined the effects of manipulating expectations about the receipt of food (pizza) on self-reported and physiological responses to pizza cues, and attentional bias to pizza pictures. It was predicted that expecting to eat pizza would...
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