Myles S Faith

..Future directions may involve longitudinal assessment of child growth and molecular analyses for specific genes that influence child eating behavior...

..The primary aim of this study was to compare children born at high vs. low risk for obesity with respect to EAH at 5 years of age...

..Insights may be achieved by testing whether the eating patterns of children are associated with demographic variables or whether they aggregate among family members...

..There are few validated instruments measuring parental beliefs about parent-child feeding relations and child compliance during meals...

..The review concludes with an outlook on possibilities for future research efforts in the field...

..Longitudinal studies are needed to test underlying causal pathways, including bidirectional causal models, and to substantiate findings in the presence of other obesity risk factors...

..Advances in behavioral science theory and methods can play an important role in advancing understanding of gene-brain-behavior relationships in obesity onset...

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..Parental feeding styles were linked to child weight in cross-sectional studies, which were unable to test the direction of effect. Prospective studies can best establish causal relationships among such variables...

..Two areas of importance are the roles of cultural differences, as well as genes that confer risk for overweight, on the relationship between restriction and child weight status...

..The genetics of habitual food and beverage intake in early childhood is poorly understood...

..To determine whether more self-controlled children are protected from weight gain as they enter adolescence...

..The association between eating in the absence of hunger and weight and obesity risk status depended on adolescents' sex and could reflect emerging developmental differences, such as dieting or social desirability...

..To determine whether novelty seeking and depressive symptoms had mediated or indirect effects on adolescent smoking progression through tobacco advertising receptivity...

..Familial risk for obesity, through either genetic or environmental pathways, may facilitate a more energy-dense diet...

..Increased intake of sugar-sweetened beverages and fruit juice has been associated with overweight in children...

..Young children adjust their short-term intake in response to variations in energy density (ED; kcal/g) from preloads in laboratory studies. It remains unknown whether this compensation also occurs under free-living conditions...

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..Contemplated policy changes should weigh scientific evidence with social judgments and values concerning changes to the environment...

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..Certain mother-child feeding patterns (MCFPs) may promote childhood obesity and/or disordered eating...

..This study examined the relationships among BMI, HRQoL, and symptoms of depression in persons with extreme obesity...

..Genetically informative designs that infuse innovative behavioral measures may help explain individual differences in eating styles and hopefully promote more effective obesity treatments...

..Young children may be more capable of quantitatively reporting feelings of satiety than is commonly believed, if appropriate experimental materials are used...

..National health guidelines advocate increased physical activity in children and adolescents, but specific goals are not being achieved. Data are needed on variables that influence children's decision to be active or sedentary...

..There is a need for longitudinal and mechanistic studies to understand casual pathways and greater collaboration between depression and obesity specialists...

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..01). Adding joint pain and obesity-related comorbidities into models attenuated BMI-HRQL associations. DISCUSSION: Associations between BMI and HRQL indices were J-shaped. Joint pain and comorbidities may mediate BMI-HRQL associations...

..Moreover, the large gap in available information for certain topics makes MRI measurement a dynamic and growing scientific area of body composition investigation...

..These results differ from patterns previously observed in males and may reflect sex differences in fat distribution. Research using superior measures of body fat amount and distribution may resolve these discrepancies...

..Future experiments will validate this scaling procedure for measuring fullness in real eating situations. If successful, this methodology might have applications to the measurement of other bodily sensations in young children...

..Based on suggested skeletal muscle-bone relationships, this study tested the hypothesis that in children and adolescents lean tissue mass (LTM) is a better predictor of total bone mineral content (TBMC) than is FM...

..CONCLUSION: WC is more closely linked to cardiovascular disease risk factors than is BMI...

..Analyses revealed that only self-esteem, adult teasing, and ISAS predicted BID. Results highlight the importance of adulthood self-esteem and interpersonal-cultural context--rather than childhood experiences--in predicting adulthood BID...

..The gradients of these changes are inversely related to baseline BMI and do not substantially depend on gender...

..However, power to detect a locus with the lesser (in magnitude) displacement effect does not necessarily increase with extremity of sampling. Combinations of extreme discordant and extreme concordant sibling pairs are briefly discussed...