Do breastfeeding history and diet quality predict inhibitory control at preschool age?

Many studies have explored the links between child eating, parenting food behaviors, child weight, and self-regulation, however, the evidence on how these elements relate to each other in terms of weight gain risk during early childhood is insufficient. Family feeding behaviors and individual differences in self-regulation within and outside of eating are linked to excessive […]

In this 2017 study, the relationship between parental mindful feeding (which is the parent’s mental and emotional presence while feeding a child) and their children’s food intake was investigated. The participants were parents (79% non-Hispanic white; 76% female) of children aged 2.9 to 7.5 years recruited through Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk). In unadjusted models, mindful […]