Learning to Eat in an Obesogenic Environment: A Developmental Systems Perspective on Childhood Obesity
Learning to Eat in an Obesogenic Environment: A Developmental Systems Perspective on Childhood Obesity
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1750-8606.2010.00132.x
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发表时间：
2010-08-01
影响因子：
6.4
通讯作者：
Anzman, Stephanie L.
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作者：
Birch, Leann L.;Anzman, Stephanie L.
目前，儿童在过去30年中出现的促进肥胖或致肥胖的环境中发育。这种快速的变化提供了一个难得的机会来研究在新环境中人类遗传倾向表达所导致的表型结果。不幸的是，已经发生的环境变化与所有年龄组的流行性肥胖率有关。然而，从发展的角度来看，这篇文章认为这种概率结果并不是预先确定的。文章还提供了学习范例的例子，熟悉和联想和观察学习，目前的机会，父母和照顾者，以重组儿童的环境在生命早期，增加健康的体重状况的结果在当前的肥胖环境的背景下的可能性。
Currently, children are developing in an obesity-promoting, or obesogenic, environment, which has emerged within the past 3 decades. This rapid change provides a rare opportunity to investigate the phenotypic outcomes that result from the expression of human genetic predispositions in a new environment. Unfortunately, the environmental changes that have occurred are associated with epidemic obesity rates in all age groups. Using a developmental perspective, this article argues that this probabilistic outcome is not predetermined, however. The article also provides examples of learning paradigms-familiarization and associative and observational learning-that present opportunities for parents and caregivers to restructure children's environments in early life, increasing the likelihood of healthy weight-status outcomes in the context of the current obesogenic environment.