Sentences with phrase «influence child weight»

In order to disentangle these associations, further study is needed to elucidate how emotional and feeding responsiveness influence child weight outcomes.

The purpose of this study was to assess whether maternal emotion responses mediate the association between maternal binge eating (BE) and child feeding practices, in order to identify potential risk factors for feeding practices that influence child weight.

Not exact matches

Another argument against the banning of junk food advertising to children claims that assertions about causal influences of food advertising on children's diets and weight are flawed because they do not take into consideration other risk factors.

Your child's height, weight, and level of activity can influence how many calories he requires, but the exact number of calories isn't usually that important to know.

Weighted blankets and vests can exert a calming influence on your child, but seeing the prices some companies charge for them can have the opposite effect on you.

«Although intrauterine experiences can exert influence on the infant's subsequent development, the experiences it has during the ten months or so after birth are of greater experience... a continuing symbiotic relation between mother and child designed to endure an unbroken continuum until the infant's brain weight has more than doubled.»

A number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack of community support, single parenthood, low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition, low birth weight and infant health are just some of the variables.

To our knowledge, the influence of family size on recall of breastfeeding duration has not been reported previously; however, recall of birth weight has been found to decrease among mothers with five or more children (39).

Everyday influences — the weights Dad lifts to make himself muscle - bound, the diet regimen Mom follows to lose pounds — don't produce stronger or slimmer progeny, because those changes don't affect the germ cells involved in making children.

I actually just came across this interesting study showing that a mothers diet during pregnancy can influence the stress response (and cortisol output) of their child even 20 years into life, contributing to weight gain.

Children in the DISC met the following inclusion criteria: (i) age 7 — 10 years, ii) in the 80th to 90th percentiles for serum LDL - C level, (iii) in the ≥ 5th percentile for height and 5th to 90th percentiles for weight for height, (iv) Tanner Stage 1 of sexual maturation, and (v) no major illnesses and not taking any medication influencing blood lipids or growth.

Second, it is more difficult to reduce excessive weight in adolescents and adults once it becomes established; therefore, it may be helpful to initiate obesity prevention interventions during early childhood.16 There is a growing consensus that the appropriate period to target obesity prevention interventions is the early years in a child's life.17 The aim of the present review was, therefore, to examine the evidence for environmental influences on dietary determinants of obesity, focusing on younger children (birth to 8 years).

Maternal feeding practices appear to influence young children's eating behaviour but not weight status in the short term.

Within a socioecological framework, the home environment exerts the most significant influence on children's acquisition of weight - related behaviours; however, as children grow the early child care setting also has an important role in the development of young children's weight - related behaviours.

For example, some have found significant differences between children with divorced and continuously married parents even after controlling for personality traits such as depression and antisocial behavior in parents.59 Others have found higher rates of problems among children with single parents, using statistical methods that adjust for unmeasured variables that, in principle, should include parents» personality traits as well as many genetic influences.60 And a few studies have found that the link between parental divorce and children's problems is similar for adopted and biological children — a finding that can not be explained by genetic transmission.61 Another study, based on a large sample of twins, found that growing up in a single - parent family predicted depression in adulthood even with genetic resemblance controlled statistically.62 Although some degree of selection still may be operating, the weight of the evidence strongly suggests that growing up without two biological parents in the home increases children's risk of a variety of cognitive, emotional, and social problems.

Some mothers responses may have been influenced by their perceptions of the «right» behaviour with regards to feeding their children, and social desirability with regards to maternal and child weight status.

Regarding the child, the importance of the intrauterine and early postnatal environments for metabolic programming and modifications of the epigenome is increasingly recognised, 12 — 14 particularly for metabolic diseases such as obesity and diabetes.15 Thus, GDM is related to macrosomia at birth (> 4 kg), to excess body fat and (central) obesity and to insulin secretion in infants and children, the obesity being in part mediated by maternal body mass index (BMI) or birth weight.16 — 23 Intrauterine exposure to GDM also doubles the risk for subsequent type 2 diabetes in offspring compared with offspring of mothers with a high genetic predisposition for type 2 diabetes, but with normal glucose tolerance during the index pregnancy.24 Maternal prepregnancy overweight and excessive gestational weight gain also predict high birth weight and adiposity during infancy.12 25 This is highly relevant, as up to 60 % — 70 % of women with GDM are overweight or obese before pregnancy.26 Finally, maternal lifestyle behaviour such as a high fat diet or lack of physical activity during pregnancy can influence offspring adiposity independent of maternal obesity.12 27

A number of factors that are associated with poverty may exert a negative influence on a child's social and emotional development: a lack of community support, single parenthood, low parental education, maternal depression, nutrition, low birth weight and infant health are just some of the variables.

These findings are theoretically consistent with Attachment Theory, which provides a useful framework for examining how maternal - child interactions could influence feeding and child weight outcomes [24, 43, 69].

Aboriginal Australians experience multiple social and health disadvantages from the prenatal period onwards.1 Infant2 and child3 mortality rates are higher among Aboriginal children, as are well - established influences on poor health, cognitive and education outcomes, 4 — 6 including premature birth and low birth weight, 7 — 9 being born to teenage mothers7 and socioeconomic disadvantage.1, 8 Addressing Aboriginal early life disadvantage is of particular importance because of the high birth rate among Aboriginal people10 and subsequent young age structure of the Aboriginal population.11 Recent population estimates suggest that children under 10 years of age account for almost a quarter of the Aboriginal population compared with only 12 % of the non-Aboriginal population of Australia.11

Hankey, Maren Elizabeth, «Eating, Feeding, and Weight in Early Childhood: Investigation of Child Eating Behaviors and Maternal Feeding Style as Influences on Preschoolers» Body Mass Index» (2014).

Identification of factors that drive parental concern about child weight, such as socially influenced body weight ideals and knowledge about the health consequences of obesity, that are not explicitly studied in connection to concern about child weight [80], can help professionals provide parents with appropriate information and coping strategies.

In addition to the overall functioning of the family unit, the quality of the unique relationship between a parent and his / her adolescent / young adult child may influence adolescent weight status and related behaviors.