We found significant evidence that the more a mother knows about health and nutrition the better is the overall quality of her children’s diet, for preschoolers more so than older children. We also found that a mother’s years of schooling, smoking status, race, and ethnicity influence her children’s diet. Our results imply that health and nutrition education may be more effective if targeted to...

background: nutrition in childhood has a significant role in current and adulthood health. recent studies have shown that the mother’s life-style has an important role in the methods used by mother to feed child, child’s diet and body mass index (bmi). this study paper aimed to investigate the association between mother’s weight efficacy life-style (wel) with feeding practices and diet in child...