An exploration of the longitudinal relation between parental feeding practices and child anthropometric adiposity measures from the West Midlands Active Lifestyle and Healthy Eating in Schoolchildren (WAVES) Study.

Conclusions: Observed relations between various parental feeding practices and later adiposity are mitigated by inclusion of the baseline adiposity measure. This finding lends support to the theory of reverse causation, whereby the child's size may influence parental choice of specific feeding practices rather than the child's subsequent weight status being a consequence of these feeding practices.
PMID: 30541090 [PubMed - in process]

Source: Am J Clin Nutr - December 1, 2018 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hurley KL, Pallan MJ, Lancashire ER, Adab P, WAVES Study Investigators Tags: Am J Clin Nutr Source Type: research