Abstract
Objective
To explore the associations between the eating habits of sons and daughters and the
eating habits, sedentary behavior, and physical activity of their fathers and mothers.
Design
A cross-sectional survey of adolescents.
Setting
The 6 largest schools in Londrina, Brazil.
Participants
A total of 842 adolescents, 842 mothers, and 842 fathers participated in this study.
Main Outcomes Measures
Eating habits of adolescents and sedentary behavior, physical activity, and eating
habits of their fathers and mothers, measured by questionnaire.
Analysis
The associations were identified by binary logistic regression, adjusted by adolescent's
age, family's socioeconomic status, parents’ educational level, and the other parental
behavior.
Results
Independent of educational level and socioeconomic condition, mothers' eating behaviors
seem to be more closely related to their adolescent children's eating behavior (vegetables,
fruits, fried foods, soft drinks, and sweets [P = .001]) than fathers' behaviors (fried foods and sweets [P = .01], soft drinks [P = .001]). In addition, the behaviors of mothers were more associated to the behaviors
of daughters than to the behaviors of sons (7 vs 5 associated behaviors), while behaviors
of fathers were more associated with the behaviors of sons than to the behaviors of
daughters (4 vs 2 associated behaviors). No associations were noted for sedentary
and physical activity behavior and eating behaviors between adolescents and their
parents.
Conclusions And Implications
Many eating habits of adolescents were associated with eating habits of both fathers
and mothers, emphasizing the importance of family-focused health promotion actions.
Future research is needed incorporating into the analyses, among others, the nutritional
statuses and the clustering of healthy and unhealthy behaviors of parents and their
children.
Key Words
To read this article in full you will need to make a payment
Purchase one-time access:
Academic & Personal: 24 hour online accessCorporate R&D Professionals: 24 hour online accessSNEB Member Login
SNEB Members, full access to the journal is a member benefit. Login via the SNEB Website to access all journal content and features.Subscribe:
Subscribe to Journal of Nutrition Education and BehaviorAlready a print subscriber? Claim online access
Already an online subscriber? Sign in
Register: Create an account
Institutional Access: Sign in to ScienceDirect
REFERENCES
- Dietary patterns associated with overweight among Brazilian adolescents.Appetite. 2018; 123: 402-409
- Bi-directional associations between parental feeding practices and children's body mass in parent–child dyads.Appetite. 2018; 129: 192-197
- Intake of fried foods is associated with obesity in the cohort of Spanish adults from the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition.Am J Clin Nutr. 2007; 86: 198-205
- A longitudinal analysis of sugar-sweetened beverage intake in infancy and obesity at 6 years.Pediatrics. 2014; 134: S29-S35
- Blood pressure trajectories from childhood to young adulthood associated with cardiovascular risk: results from the 23-year longitudinal Georgia Stress and Heart Study.Hypertension. 2017; 69: 435-442
- Exploring grandparents’ roles in young children's lifestyle behaviors and the prevention of childhood obesity: an Australian perspective.J Nutr Educ Behav. 2018; 50: 516-521
- Parental role modeling of fruits and vegetables at meals and snacks is associated with children's adequate consumption.Appetite. 2014; 78: 1-7
- Predictors of mother–daughter resemblance in dietary intake. The role of eating styles, mothers’ consumption, and closeness.Appetite. 2012; 58: 271-276
- Associations between Swedish mothers’ and 3- and 5-year-old children's food intake.J Nutr Educ Behav. 2016; 48: 520-529
- Intakes and perceived home availability of sugar-sweetened beverages, fruit and vegetables as reported by mothers, fathers and adolescents in the HEIA (Health In Adolescents) study.Public Health Nutr. 2011; 14: 2156-2165
- Higher screen time is associated with overweight, poor dietary habits and physical inactivity in Brazilian adolescents, mainly among girls.Eur J Sport Sci. 2016; 16: 498-506
- Association between screen time and snack consumption in children and adolescents: the CASPIAN-IV study.J Pediatr Endocrinol Metab. 2017; 30: 211-219
- Cross-sectional association between healthy and unhealthy food habits and leisure physical activity in adolescents.J Pediatr (Rio J). 2011; 87: 252-256
- Familial resemblance in dietary intakes of children, adolescents, and parents: does dietary quality play a role?.Nutrients. 2017; 9: E892
- Do children and their parents eat a similar diet? Resemblance in child and parental dietary intake: systematic review and meta-analysis.J Epidemiol Commun Health. 2011; 65: 177-189
- Correlation in food intake between parents and adolescents depends on socioeconomic level.Nutr Res. 2006; 26: 517-523
- Food prices in Brazil: prefer cooking to ultra-processed foods [in Portuguese].Cad Saude Publica. 2016; 32e00104715
- ERICA: prevalence of healthy eating habits among Brazilian adolescents [in Portuguese].Rev Saude Publica. 2016; 50: 6s
United Nations Development Programme. Human Development Indices and Indicators: 2018 Statistical Update. Briefing note for countries on the 2018 Statistical Update: Brazil. New York, NY: United Nations Development Programme; 2018. http://hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/BRA.pdf. Accessed June 20, 2019.
- A rapid food screener to assess fat and fruit and vegetable intake.Am J Prev Med. 2000; 18: 284-288
- A brief dietary screen for high fat intake.J Nutr Educ. 1989; 21: 199-207
- Diet, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases.World Health Organization, Geneva2002
- Risk factors associated with adequate fruit and vegetable intake by schoolchildren in Santa Catarina State, Brazil [in Portuguese].Cad Saude Publica. 2012; 28: 1133-1142
- Risk factors for overweight and obesity in French adolescents: physical activity, sedentary behavior and parental characteristics.Nutrition. 2010; 26: 192-200
- A short questionnaire for the measurement of habitual physical activity in epidemiological studies.Am J Clin Nutr. 1982; 36: 936-942
- Methodology to evaluation the habitual physical activity in men aged 50 years or more [in Portuguese].Rev Saude Publica. 2004; 38: 307-314
- Doubly labelled water validation of three physical activity questionnaires.Int J Sports Med. 1999; 20: 284-289
Associação Brasileira de Empresas de Pesquisa (ABEP). Critério de classificação econômica no brasil. 2014. www.abep.org/criterio-brasil. Accessed February 28, 2019.
- Controlling the false discovery rate: a practical and powerful approach to multiple hypothesis testing.J R Stat Soc B. 1995; 57: 289-300
- Explaining school children's fruit and vegetable consumption: the contributions of availability, accessibility, exposure, parental consumption and habit in addition to psychosocial factors.Appetite. 2007; 48: 248-258
- Predictors of changes in adolescents’ consumption of fruits, vegetables and energy-dense snacks.Br J Nutr. 2011; 105: 795-803
- Correlates of fruit and vegetable consumption among 11-year-old Belgian-Flemish and Dutch schoolchildren.J Nutr Educ Behav. 2006; 38: 211-221
- Availability, accessibility, and preferences for fruit, 100% fruit juice, and vegetables influence children's dietary behavior.Health Educ Behav. 2003; 30: 615-626
- Determinants of fruit and vegetable consumption among children and adolescents: a review of the literature. Part I: quantitative studies.Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act. 2006; 3: 22
- Consumption of fruit, vegetables, sweets and soft drinks are associated with psychological dimensions of eating behaviour in parents and their 12-year-old children.Public Health Nutr. 2008; 11: 914-923
- Screen time by different devices in adolescents: association with physical inactivity domains and eating habits.J Sports Med Phys Fit. 2018; 58: 318-325
- The influence of parental modelling on children's physical activity and screen time: does it differ by gender?.Eur J Public Health. 2017; 27: 152-157
- Is physical activity a gateway behavior for diet? Findings from a physical activity trial.Prev Med. 2008; 46: 216-221
- Eating patterns in the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Adult Health (ELSA-Brasil): an exploratory analysis [in Portuguese].Cad Saude Publica. 2016; 32e00066215
- Ultra-processed food consumption and adiposity trajectories in a Brazilian cohort of adolescents: ELANA study.Nutr Diabetes. 2018; 8: 28
- Association between family structure and food group intake in children.Nutr Res Pract. 2014; 8: 463-468
- Perspectives about family meals from single-headed and dual-headed households: a qualitative analysis.J Acad Nutr Diet. 2013; 113: 1632-1639
- Beverage consumption in Brazil: results from the first National Dietary Survey.Public Health Nutr. 2015; 18: 1164-1172
Article info
Publication history
Published online: November 04, 2019
Accepted:
September 24,
2019
Footnotes
Conflict of Interest Disclosure: The authors have not stated any conflicts of interest.
Identification
Copyright
© 2019 Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
