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Parental Influence on Eating Behavior: Conception to Adolescence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Jennifer S. Savage ,
Jennifer Orlet Fisher  and
Leann L. Birch
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Eating behaviors evolve during the first years of life as biological and behavioral processes directed towards meeting requirements for health and growth. For the vast majority of human history, food scarcity has constituted a major threat to survival, and human eating behavior and child feeding practices have evolved in response to this threat. Because infants are born into a wide variety of cultures and cuisines, they come equipped as young omnivores with a set of behavioral predispositions that allow them to learn to accept the foods made available to them. During historical conditions of scarcity, family life and resources were devoted to the procurement and preparation of foods, which are often low in energy, nutrients, and palatability. In sharp contrast, today in non-Third World countries children's eating habits develop under unprecedented conditions of dietary abundance, where palatable, inexpensive, ready-to-eat foods are readily available.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 35 , Issue 1 , Spring 2007 , pp. 22 - 34
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2007

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