Background The family is an important social context where children learn and adopt eating
behaviors. Specifically, parents play the role of health promoters, role models, and …

The gene encoding fibroin light chain protein (FibL) is specifically expressed in the posterior
silk gland of silkworm and repressed in other tissues. The binding sites of several …

The interest in children's eating behaviours and how to change them has been growing in
recent years. This review examines the following questions: What strategies have been used …

Findings on the relationship between family meal frequency and children's nutritional health
are inconsistent. The reasons for these mixed results have to date remained largely …

Despite emerging efforts to investigate the influence parents have on their children's weight
status and related dietary and activity behaviors, reviews regarding the role of general …

Child overweight/obesity continues to be a serious public health problem in high-income
countries. The current review had 3 goals: 1) to summarize the associations between …

Background While the role of parenting in children's eating behaviors has been studied
extensively, less attention has been given to its potential association with children's …

A substantial body of research suggests that efforts to prevent pediatric obesity may benefit
from targeting not just what a child eats, but how they eat. Specifically, child obesity …

With its primary focus on the psychology of eating from a social, health, and clinical
perspective, the second edition of The Psychology of Eating: From Healthy to Disordered …

Background Maternal feeding practices have been proposed to play an important role in
early child weight gain and obesogenic eating behaviors. However, to date longitudinal …