The study notes that two types of parental feeding styles, in particular, play a role in how parents regulate children's eating habits:. But rather than dictate children's habits, the research suggests parents are "responding to their child's emerging characteristics, not simply causing them". The researchers assessed data, from the Twins Early Development Study, of 4, sets of twins born in England and Wales between and They calculated a genetic score that sets out the likelihood of these individuals to have a higher or lower body mass index BMI.
They then matched this score against parents' feeding reports, setting out whether they used restriction or pressure. The study found those children with a higher genetic BMI score had higher reported rates of parental restriction and those with lower BMIs had higher rates of pressuring, suggesting parents were adjusting their strategies for each child.
Even within families where non-identical twins differed in their genetic predisposition, parents were more restrictive with the twin who had a tendency to be of a higher weight and were more pressuring of the twin who tended to weigh less. This article has been cited by other articles in PMC. Table 1 The nine multilevel responsibilities and examples of strategies required for tackling obesity.
Open in a separate window. Why Medicalize Obesity Management? Parental Responsibility for Childhood Obesity? Discussion Integrated Action Strategies: Not More of the Same In the final analysis, any change in body weight must follow the first law of thermodynamics.
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Acknowledgments I thank Professor Janet Fleetwood for very constructive discussions in preparing this opinion piece.
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