Influences on the Development of Children's Eating Behaviours: From Infancy to Adolescence
[2023-05-29 06:10:41]
The conclusion of several comprehensive reports is to examine the determinants of obesity (including feeding behavior) in early childhood and to determine the early intervention, which is the first years of prenatal and childhood, is healthy intake in children Suggesting that it may be the best window to promote eating behavior. . 45,62 As mentioned above, the experience of food and food preference began in early childhood and continues to evolve as children move to solid foods. During this time, the taste of children's food is also affected by food availability, accessibility and familiarity, and parent modeling. Therefore, if children learn to choose to prefer healthy foods, they need an early, positive and repeated experience of these foods.
Table 2 highlights some aspects of behavior of parents and carers related to children's feeding habits, which should be the goals of education, prevention and intervention. Evidence from the above review also confirms the importance of parents and caregivers as the main influencing factors of the feeding behavior of the child and the gatekeeper. It is not surprising that caregivers play an important role in fostering the taste of children's foods, but parents need guidance on this point due to the poor diet quality of children in North America. Interventions targeting the attitudes and behaviors of parents and carers may be most effective in promoting a child's healthy diet
Even with an emphasis on early prevention, healthy eating behaviors need to be taught and strengthened in the family, school, and community environment during early childhood and adolescence. Early intervention alone is not enough, effective prevention requires a consistent, sustained and age-appropriate strategy. In addition, many of the interventions used today to change feeding behavior are using the 'kitchen sink' approach. Including a number of intervention elements, at least one or two interventions will affect the expected results.
However, as mentioned above, to date, there have been few successful interventions to improve the diet of children. As planned elements are tested separately before intervention, such as multi-step optimization strategy (MOST) 64 proposed by Collins et al., Providing a more effective method for more effective design and implementation Approach Childhood intervention and promotion of optimal feeding behavior
In short, children 's feeding behavior is susceptible to many external influences within families, schools, and communities. Many of these effects are currently promoting obesity prone diet patterns. Fortunately, these effects can also promote healthy eating habits. Incorporating existing knowledge on the multifaceted influence of pediatric dietary behavior into evidence-based prevention and intervention efforts will help improve adolescent meal quality and feeding behavior.
Parents have a great impact on the lives of children in every way. From early childhood, parents influence the food they eat, the communities they grow up, the schools where they are, and even their gender identity. A young man with a good parent relationship expects parents to be instructed in the development of identity. Even the success of parent marriage will affect children's identity. Parents have the ability and obligation to positively influence child's identity development
Children experience different stages of development as they grow, and understanding and curiosity about sexual problems changes as they shift from early childhood to childhood and adolescence. Every child is individual and grows in his own way. However, there are generally accepted ranges of behavior related to the child's age and developmental stage. Sometimes these will include some exploration with other children of similar age. It may be difficult to distinguish harmful behavior from warning sign of sexual exploration based on proper age. Occasionally, we may need to explain why we do not want children to cont