Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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7307759 | Appetite | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
More frequent prompts to eat fruits and vegetables during typical meals were associated with higher overall intake of these food groups. More prompts for children to try a novel vegetable was associated with higher overall vegetable intake, but this pattern was not seen for fruits, suggesting that vegetable variety may be more strongly associated with intake. Children who ate the most vegetables had parents who used more “reasoning” prompts, which may have become an internalized motivation to eat these foods, but this needs to be tested explicitly using longer-term longitudinal studies.
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Authors
Lisa R. Edelson, Cassandra Mokdad, Nathalie Martin,