date:Sep 19, 2018
the children, leading to unhealthy food preferences in the future, for example.
These practices can reinforce fussy eating, increase preferences for unhealthy foods, and lead to excessive weight gain, says lead author Holly Harris, Ph.D., Centre for Children's Health Research, Queensland University of Technology, Australia.
Understanding why parents respond unproductively to fussy eating is an important step to educate on healthy feeding practices, she adds.
This study recruited 208 mothers