The influence of early feeding practices on healthy diet variety score among pre-school children in four European birth cohorts

• Type: Article in International Scientific Journal
• Date: 2015

Authors

Jones, L (Author) Other; Moschonis, G (Author) Other; Oliveira, A (Author) Other; de Lauzon Guillain, B (Author) Other; Manios, Y (Author) Other; Xepapadaki, P (Author) Other; Lopes, C (Author) Other; Moreira, Pedro (Author) FCNAUP; Charles, MA (Author) Other; Emmett, P (Author) Other

Journal

Title: Public Health Nutrition

Vol. 18 No. 3

Pages: 1774-1784

ISSN: 1368-9800

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Indexing

ISI Web of Knowledge - 31 Citations

ISI Web of Science

Scopus - 1 Citation

Scientific classification

FOS: Medical and Health sciences

CORDIS: Health sciences

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00G-5DY

DOI: 10.1017/s1368980014002390

Abstract (EN): Objective: The present study examined whether maternal diet and early infant feeding experiences relating to being breast-fed and complementary feeding influence the range of healthy foods consumed in later childhood. Design: Data from four European birth cohorts were studied. Healthy Plate Variety Score (HPVS) was calculated using FFQ. HPVS assesses the variety of healthy foods consumed within and across the five main food groups. The weighted numbers of servings consumed of each food group were summed; the maximum score was 5. Associations between infant feeding experiences, maternal diet and the HPVS were tested using generalized linear models and adjusted for appropriate confounders. Setting: The British Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC), the French Etude des Determinants pre et postnatals de la sante et du developpement de L'Enfant study (EDEN), the Portuguese Generation XXI Birth Cohort and the Greek EuroPrevall cohort. Subjects: Pre-school children and their mothers. Results: The mean HPVS for each of the cohorts ranged from 2.3 to 3.8, indicating that the majority of children were not eating a full variety of healthy foods. Never being breast-fed or being breast-fed for a short duration was associated with lower HPVS at 2, 3 and 4 years of age in all cohorts. There was no consistent association between the timing of complementary feeding and HPVS. Mother's HPVS was strongly positively associated with child's HPVS but did not greatly attenuate the relationship with breast-feeding duration. Conclusions: Results suggest that being breast-fed for a short duration is associated with pre-school children eating a lower variety of healthy foods.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 11