Parental feeding style and the intergenerational transmission of obesity risk
Parental feeding style and the intergenerational transmission of obesity risk
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DOI：
10.1038/oby.2002.63
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发表时间：
2002-06-01
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Plomin, R
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作者：
Wardle, J;Sanderson, S;Plomin, R
目的：本研究旨在确定有幼儿的肥胖母亲的社区样本与正常体重母亲的匹配样本相比是否使用不同的喂养方式。对喂养方式的四个方面进行了评估：情绪喂养、工具性喂养（以食物作为奖励）、提示/鼓励进食和控制进食。 研究方法和程序：参与者来自214个同性双胞胎家庭； 100 个父母均超重或肥胖的家庭，以及 114 个父母均体重正常或瘦的家庭。 结果：我们发现，与正常体重的母亲相比，肥胖的母亲不太可能提供食物来应对情绪困扰、使用食物作为奖励，或鼓励孩子吃得比想要的多。肥胖母亲和正常体重母亲在“控制”方面确实存在差异。肥胖母亲报告称，对孩子摄入量的控制力明显较差，第一胎和第二胎双胞胎都出现了这种情况。双胞胎分析表明，这些差异并不是对儿童遗传倾向的反应，因为母亲喂养方式的同卵相关性并不大于异卵相关性。讨论：这些结果表明，肥胖母亲的刻板印象（她以非营养方式使用食物，因此她的孩子也变得肥胖）更有可能是神话而不是事实。然而，结果提出了一种可能性，即缺乏对食物摄入的控制可能会导致体重差异的出现。
Objective: This study was designed to determine whether a community sample of obese mothers with young children used different feeding styles compared with a matched sample of normal-weight mothers. Four aspects of feeding style were assessed: emotional feeding, instrumental feeding (using food as a reward), prompting/encouragement to eat, and control over eating.Research Methods and Procedures: Participants were from 214 families with same-sex twins; 100 families in which both parents were overweight or obese and 114 in which both parents were normal weight or lean.Results: We found that obese mothers were no more likely than normal-weight mothers to offer food to deal with emotional distress, use food as a form of reward, or encourage the child to eat more than was wanted. The obese and normal-weight mothers did differ on "control"; obese mothers reported significantly less control over their children's intake, and this was seen for both first-born and second-born twins. Twin analyses showed that these differences were not in response to children's genetic propensities, because monozygotic correlations were no greater than dizygotic correlations for maternal feeding style.Discussion: These results suggest that the stereotype of the obese mother, who uses food in nonnutritive ways so that her child also becomes obese, is more likely to be myth than fact. However, the results raise the possibility that lack of control of food intake might contribute to the emergence of differences in weight.