Parental awareness of food portion sizes for children aged 6–36 months
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Portion sizes for children are predicted by parental characteristics and the amounts parents serve themselves.
BACKGROUND Children's energy intakes are influenced by the portions they are served. Factors influencing the amounts adults offer children are not well described. OBJECTIVE We assessed whether the amounts that were served to and consumed by children at meals were related to amounts that parents served themselves. DESIGN In this repeated-measures, cross-sectional observational study, 145 par...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the Nutrition Society
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0029-6651,1475-2719
DOI: 10.1017/s0029665112001358