Relationship between parental report of food neophobia and everyday food consumption in 2-6-year-old children
Relationship between parental report of food neophobia and everyday food consumption in 2-6-year-old children
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10.1016/s0195-6663(03)00048-5
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发表时间：
2003-10-01
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5.4
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Gibson, EL
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Cooke, L;Wardle, J;Gibson, EL
大量研究调查了儿童的“新食物恐惧症”，这是一种人格特质，表现为避免不熟悉的食物。尽管数据并不完全一致，但有一些证据表明，新恐惧症存在年龄差异（Cashdan, 1994），这种差异在婴儿时期似乎很小，在2岁左右迅速上升，此后逐渐减弱。这种发展模式与意外中毒频率的年龄变化相似（Cashdan, 1998），并且与新恐惧症具有保护功能的建议一致，因为2到5岁之间的孩子变得越来越独立，能够自己决定什么（什么不）放进嘴里。尽管幼儿期可能是食物偏好发展的敏感时期（Cashdan, 1994），但很少有关于新恐惧症对该年龄组特定食物消费或日常食物选择的影响的研究。Falciglia, Couch, Gribble， Pabst和Frank（2000）试图调查9-10岁儿童新恐惧症对饮食多样性的影响。他们发现，恐新人群的整体健康饮食指数得分低于一般人群和亲新人群。造成这一差异的重要原因是，恐新儿童的饮食多样性较低，饱和脂肪摄入量较高，尽管他们的肉类或乳制品摄入量或总能量没有差异。在两项针对年龄范围更广（2-17岁）的瑞典儿童的研究中，母亲和儿童的新食物恐惧症与家中提供的不常见食物数量较少有关（Koivisto & Sjödén, 1996），并且不太可能吃到来自其他国家的特定食物
A substantial body of research has examined ‘food neophobia’in children, a personality trait, manifesting as avoidance of unfamiliar foods. Although the data are not entirely consistent, there is some evidence for the existence of age differences in neophobia (Cashdan, 1994) which appears to be minimal in infancy, rising rapidly at around the age of 2 and gradually tailing off thereafter. This developmental pattern is similar to age changes in the frequency of accidental poisonings (Cashdan, 1998) and is consistent with the suggestion that neophobia has a protective function, since the years between 2 and 5 see children becoming increasingly independent and able to decide for themselves what (and what not) to put in their mouths. Despite the fact that early childhood may represent a sensitive period in the development of food preferences (Cashdan, 1994), there has been very little research into the effect of neophobia on consumption of specific foods or on everyday food choices in this age group. Falciglia, Couch, Gribble, Pabst, and Frank (2000) attempted to investigate the impact of neophobia on dietary variety in 9–10 year olds. They found that overall Healthy Eating Index scores were lower for a neophobic group than for average and neophilic groups. Significant contributors to this difference were lower dietary variety and higher consumption of saturated fat in neophobic children, despite no difference in their intake of meat or dairy foods, or total energy.In two studies of Swedish children with wider age ranges (2–17 years), food neophobia in both mothers and children was associated with lower numbers of uncommon foods being served in the family home (Koivisto & Sjödén, 1996) and with less likelihood of having eaten specific foods from