Pediatric Food Preferences and Eating Behaviors reviews scientific works that investigate why children eat the way they do and whether eating behaviors are modifiable. The book begins with an introduction and historical perspective, and then delves into the development of flavor preferences, the role of repeated exposure and other types of learning, the effects of modeling eating behavior, picky eating, food neophobia, and food selectivity. Other sections discuss appetite regulation, the role of reward pathways, genetic contributions to eating behaviors, environmental influences, cognitive aspects, the development of loss of control eating, and food cognitions and nutrition knowledge.
Written by leading researchers in the field, each chapter presents basic concepts and definitions, methodological issues pertaining to measurement, and the current state of scientific knowledge as well as directions for future research.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. v 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Prologue - p. xvii 8. Chapter 1: Measuring Sweet and Bitter Taste in Children: Individual Variation due to Age and Taste Genetics - p. xviii 9. Chapter 2: Learning to Like: Roles of Repeated Exposure and Other Types of Learning - p. 34 10. Chapter 3: Effects of Modeling on Children's Eating Behavior - p. 52 11. Chapter 4: Children's Challenging Eating Behaviors: Picky Eating, Food Neophobia, and Food Selectivity - p. 72 12. Chapter 5: Satiety Responsiveness and Eating Rate in Childhood: Development, Plasticity, and the Family Footprint - p. 92 13. Chapter 6: Role of Reward Pathways in Appetitive Drive and Regulation - p. 110 14. Chapter 7: Appetitive Traits: Genetic Contributions to Pediatric Eating Behaviors - p. 126 15. Chapter 8: The Influence of the Food Environment on Food Intake and Weight Regulation in Children - p. 146 16. Chapter 9: Parenting Influences on Appetite and Weight - p. 163 17. Chapter 10: Executive Function and Self-Regulatory Influences on Children's Eating - p. 182 18. Chapter 11: Neurocognitive Influences on Eating Behavior in Children - p. 206 19. Chapter 12: Development of Loss of Control Eating - p. 231 20. Chapter 13: Intentional Self-Regulation of Eating Among Children and Adolescents - p. 254 21. Chapter 14: Food Cognition and Nutrition Knowledge - p. 270 22. Epilogue - p. 289 23. Index - p. 293
Pediatric Food Preferences and Eating Behaviors reviews scientific works that investigate why children eat the way they do and whether eating behaviors are modifiable. The book begins with an introduction and historical perspective, and then delves into the development of flavor preferences, the role of repeated exposure and other types of learning, the effects of modeling eating behavior, picky eating, food neophobia, and food selectivity. Other sections discuss appetite regulation, the role of reward pathways, genetic contributions to eating behaviors, environmental influences, cognitive aspects, the development of loss of control eating, and food cognitions and nutrition knowledge.
Written by leading researchers in the field, each chapter presents basic concepts and definitions, methodological issues pertaining to measurement, and the current state of scientific knowledge as well as directions for future research.
1. Cover image - p. iv 2. Title page - p. iv 3. Table of Contents - p. iv 4. Copyright - p. iv 5. Dedication - p. v 6. Contributors - p. xiii 7. Prologue - p. xvii 8. Chapter 1: Measuring Sweet and Bitter Taste in Children: Individual Variation due to Age and Taste Genetics - p. xviii 9. Chapter 2: Learning to Like: Roles of Repeated Exposure and Other Types of Learning - p. 34 10. Chapter 3: Effects of Modeling on Children's Eating Behavior - p. 52 11. Chapter 4: Children's Challenging Eating Behaviors: Picky Eating, Food Neophobia, and Food Selectivity - p. 72 12. Chapter 5: Satiety Responsiveness and Eating Rate in Childhood: Development, Plasticity, and the Family Footprint - p. 92 13. Chapter 6: Role of Reward Pathways in Appetitive Drive and Regulation - p. 110 14. Chapter 7: Appetitive Traits: Genetic Contributions to Pediatric Eating Behaviors - p. 126 15. Chapter 8: The Influence of the Food Environment on Food Intake and Weight Regulation in Children - p. 146 16. Chapter 9: Parenting Influences on Appetite and Weight - p. 163 17. Chapter 10: Executive Function and Self-Regulatory Influences on Children's Eating - p. 182 18. Chapter 11: Neurocognitive Influences on Eating Behavior in Children - p. 206 19. Chapter 12: Development of Loss of Control Eating - p. 231 20. Chapter 13: Intentional Self-Regulation of Eating Among Children and Adolescents - p. 254 21. Chapter 14: Food Cognition and Nutrition Knowledge - p. 270 22. Epilogue - p. 289 23. Index - p. 293
