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Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway
BACKGROUND: Family meal participation is associated with healthier eating among children and adolescents. Less is known about family meal participation among infants and toddlers. The objective of the present study was to explore whether family meal participation at 12 months of age is associated wi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33722218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02591-6 |
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author | Hillesund, Elisabet R. Sagedal, Linda R. Bere, Elling Øverby, Nina C. |
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description | BACKGROUND: Family meal participation is associated with healthier eating among children and adolescents. Less is known about family meal participation among infants and toddlers. The objective of the present study was to explore whether family meal participation at 12 months of age is associated with dietary intake and whether a potential relationship differs according to maternal education or child sex. METHODS: Follow-up data from children born to mothers participating in the Norwegian Fit for Delivery (NFFD) trial during pregnancy were used to assess the frequency of intake of 11 dietary items according to frequency of participating in the respective family meals. Dietary differences according to seldom (0–3 times/week) or often (4–7 times/week) participating in each respective meal category were assessed in linear regression models. Potential dose-response associations with frequency of participation in all family meal categories combined were also estimated. Models were adjusted for maternal randomization status, education, and child sex. RESULTS: The sample comprised 408 children. A total of 74, 53 and 74% had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with family ≥4 times/week, respectively, while 39% had supper and 27% between-meal snacks with family ≥4 times/week. Having family dinner ≥4 times/week was associated with more frequent intake of vegetables, homemade infant cereal, milk, and water, and less frequent intake of commercial infant foods while the other family meal categories were associated with fewer dietary outcomes. For each additional meal category eaten with family ≥4 times/week, frequency of vegetable intake (β = 0.45), water (β = 0.17), and milk (β = 0.09) per day increased, while commercial infant cereal was eaten less frequently (β = − 0.18). The inverse association between family meals and commercial infant cereal was only evident in children born to mothers in the intervention group. Several associations with diet were stronger and only significant among boys. CONCLUSIONS: Being fed in the context of family meals at 12 months of age was associated with a more favorable diet. Including the infant in family meals has potential in the promotion of early nutritional health. |
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spelling | pubmed-79584082021-03-16 Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway Hillesund, Elisabet R. Sagedal, Linda R. Bere, Elling Øverby, Nina C. BMC Pediatr Research Article BACKGROUND: Family meal participation is associated with healthier eating among children and adolescents. Less is known about family meal participation among infants and toddlers. The objective of the present study was to explore whether family meal participation at 12 months of age is associated with dietary intake and whether a potential relationship differs according to maternal education or child sex. METHODS: Follow-up data from children born to mothers participating in the Norwegian Fit for Delivery (NFFD) trial during pregnancy were used to assess the frequency of intake of 11 dietary items according to frequency of participating in the respective family meals. Dietary differences according to seldom (0–3 times/week) or often (4–7 times/week) participating in each respective meal category were assessed in linear regression models. Potential dose-response associations with frequency of participation in all family meal categories combined were also estimated. Models were adjusted for maternal randomization status, education, and child sex. RESULTS: The sample comprised 408 children. A total of 74, 53 and 74% had breakfast, lunch, and dinner with family ≥4 times/week, respectively, while 39% had supper and 27% between-meal snacks with family ≥4 times/week. Having family dinner ≥4 times/week was associated with more frequent intake of vegetables, homemade infant cereal, milk, and water, and less frequent intake of commercial infant foods while the other family meal categories were associated with fewer dietary outcomes. For each additional meal category eaten with family ≥4 times/week, frequency of vegetable intake (β = 0.45), water (β = 0.17), and milk (β = 0.09) per day increased, while commercial infant cereal was eaten less frequently (β = − 0.18). The inverse association between family meals and commercial infant cereal was only evident in children born to mothers in the intervention group. Several associations with diet were stronger and only significant among boys. CONCLUSIONS: Being fed in the context of family meals at 12 months of age was associated with a more favorable diet. Including the infant in family meals has potential in the promotion of early nutritional health. BioMed Central 2021-03-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7958408/ /pubmed/33722218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02591-6 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Hillesund, Elisabet R. Sagedal, Linda R. Bere, Elling Øverby, Nina C. Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title | Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title_full | Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title_fullStr | Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title_full_unstemmed | Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title_short | Family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in Southern Norway |
title_sort | family meal participation is associated with dietary intake among 12-month-olds in southern norway |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7958408/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33722218 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12887-021-02591-6 |
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