Relationships among parental psychological distress, parental feeding practices, child diet, and child body mass index

This study explored the prevalence of orthorexia nervosa (ON) risk among dietetics students in Greece and its connections with various factors such as diet, eating disorder risk, BMI, body image flexibility, and parental attachment. The research involved 132 students with an average age of 22.94 years, who filled out questionnaires on sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, […]

Using an Australian sample of 579 mother-child dyads (average age of child = 3.05 years; 45% boys), this 2018 prospective study explored the direct and indirect associations between family stress with diet quality of the child. Higher levels of family stress correlated with poorer diet quality (lower consumption of fruits and vegetables) over time, while […]