Pediatric Food Preferences and Eating Behaviors

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, but 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.

Readers will find comprehensive chapters that conclude with recommended next steps.

Delivers an up-to-date synthesis of the research evidence addressing the development of children’s eating behaviors, from birth to age 18 yearsProvides an in-depth synthesis of the basic eating behaviors that contribute to consumption patternsTranslates the complex and sometimes conflicting research in this area to clinical and public health practiceConcludes each chapter with practical implications for practicePresents the limits of current knowledge and the next steps in scientific inquiry

1. Measuring Sweet and Bitter Taste in Children: Individual Variation due to Age and Taste Genetics
Julie A. Mennella, Alissa A. Nolden, Nuala Bobowski
2. Learning to Like: Roles of Repeated Exposure and Other Types of Learning
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Sarah Ehrenberg
3. Effects of Modeling on Children’s Eating Behavior
J. Blissett
4. Children’s Challenging Eating Behaviors: Picky Eating, Food Neophobia,and Food Selectivity
Susan L. Johnson, Kameron J. Moding, Laura L. Bellows
5. Satiety Responsiveness and Eating Rate in Childhood: Development, Plasticity, and the Family Footprint
Brenda Burgess, Myles S. Faith
6. Role of Reward Pathways in Appetitive Drive and Regulation
Ashley N. Gearhardt
7. Appetitive Traits: Genetic Contributions to Pediatric Eating Behaviors
Alexis C. Wood
8. The Influence of the Food Environment on Food Intake and Weight Regulation in Children
Tanja V.E. Kral
9. Parenting Influences on Appetite and Weight
Sheryl O. Hughes, Thomas G. Power
10. Executive Function and Self-Regulatory Influences on Children’s Eating
L.A. Francis, N.R. Riggs
11. Neurocognitive Influences on Eating Behavior in Children
Kathleen L. Keller, Amanda S. Bruce
12. Development of Loss of Control Eating
Meghan Byrne, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
13. Intentional Self-Regulation of Eating Among Children and Adolescents
Katherine W. Bauer, Sam Chuisano
14. Food Cognition and Nutrition Knowledge
Jasmine M. DeJesus, Katherine D. Kinzler, Kristin Shutts