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Raising Children on a Vegan Diet: Parents’ Opinion on Problems in Everyday Life

A growing number of Italian families are adopting a vegan diet (VD) for their offspring from infancy for various reasons, with health benefits and ethics being the most common reasons. Barriers to effective communication with primary care pediatricians (PCPs) are perceived by many parents and, depen...

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Autores principales: Bivi, Daisy, Di Chio, Teresa, Geri, Francesca, Morganti, Riccardo, Goggi, Silvia, Baroni, Luciana, Mumolo, Maria Gloria, de Bortoli, Nicola, Peroni, Diego Giampietro, Marchi, Santino, Bellini, Massimo
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Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8226937/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34070399
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13061796
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author Bivi, Daisy
Di Chio, Teresa
Geri, Francesca
Morganti, Riccardo
Goggi, Silvia
Baroni, Luciana
Mumolo, Maria Gloria
de Bortoli, Nicola
Peroni, Diego Giampietro
Marchi, Santino
Bellini, Massimo
author_facet Bivi, Daisy
Di Chio, Teresa
Geri, Francesca
Morganti, Riccardo
Goggi, Silvia
Baroni, Luciana
Mumolo, Maria Gloria
de Bortoli, Nicola
Peroni, Diego Giampietro
Marchi, Santino
Bellini, Massimo
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description A growing number of Italian families are adopting a vegan diet (VD) for their offspring from infancy for various reasons, with health benefits and ethics being the most common reasons. Barriers to effective communication with primary care pediatricians (PCPs) are perceived by many parents and, depending on the actors involved and the environment, a VD may affect social interactions in everyday life. A national cross-sectional survey was conducted between July and September 2020. Parents of children following a VD completed an online questionnaire. Data from 176 Italian parents were collected. About 72% (71.8%) of the children included in this study had been on a VD since weaning. Parents did not inform their primary care pediatricians (PCP) about the VD in 36.2% of the cases. In 70.8% of the cases, PCPs were perceived as skeptical or against a VD. About 70% (71.2%) of the parents relied on medical dietitians, and 28.2% on nutritionists/dietitians for dietary counseling. Parents administered an individual B12 supplement in 87.2% of the cases. To the best of our knowledge, this survey is the first which explores the relationship between vegan parents and their PCPs, the parental management of their children’s diet and problems regarding the implementation of a VD in everyday life.
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spelling pubmed-82269372021-06-26 Raising Children on a Vegan Diet: Parents’ Opinion on Problems in Everyday Life Bivi, Daisy Di Chio, Teresa Geri, Francesca Morganti, Riccardo Goggi, Silvia Baroni, Luciana Mumolo, Maria Gloria de Bortoli, Nicola Peroni, Diego Giampietro Marchi, Santino Bellini, Massimo Nutrients Article A growing number of Italian families are adopting a vegan diet (VD) for their offspring from infancy for various reasons, with health benefits and ethics being the most common reasons. Barriers to effective communication with primary care pediatricians (PCPs) are perceived by many parents and, depending on the actors involved and the environment, a VD may affect social interactions in everyday life. A national cross-sectional survey was conducted between July and September 2020. Parents of children following a VD completed an online questionnaire. Data from 176 Italian parents were collected. About 72% (71.8%) of the children included in this study had been on a VD since weaning. Parents did not inform their primary care pediatricians (PCP) about the VD in 36.2% of the cases. In 70.8% of the cases, PCPs were perceived as skeptical or against a VD. About 70% (71.2%) of the parents relied on medical dietitians, and 28.2% on nutritionists/dietitians for dietary counseling. Parents administered an individual B12 supplement in 87.2% of the cases. To the best of our knowledge, this survey is the first which explores the relationship between vegan parents and their PCPs, the parental management of their children’s diet and problems regarding the implementation of a VD in everyday life. MDPI 2021-05-25 /pmc/articles/PMC8226937/ /pubmed/34070399 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu13061796 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Peroni, Diego Giampietro
Marchi, Santino
Bellini, Massimo
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