Sensitive Periods And Factors In The Early Formation Of Food Preferences 
Eating behavior is a complex, essentially learned activity critical for development and survival. It can be broken down into several components: when, how, what and how much to eat. We will mainly describe in this chapter the important periods and factors associated with the development of “what” to eat, or in other words, food preferences and choice. Other aspects relevant to the early development
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Sylvie Issanchou
Sophie Nicklaus
Metabolic Programming, Breastfeeding And Later Risk Of Obesity
Nutritional sciences have found a new perspective of nutrition in recent years when it became clear that nutritional deficiencies may have long-term consequences even if treated and corrected in later life. Critical life periods were identified- like infancy and early childhood or the prenatal period where nutrition plays a special role producing a so called programming effect- long-term metabolic
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Weaning Practices And Later Obesity
In recent years many studies have correlated the nutrition of the first one thousand days of life to the development of non-communicable diseases and in particular to the development of obesity (1-4). This hypothesis therefore radically shifts the goals of dietary recommendations for six months old infants from promoting growth in the short term within the limits of the reference curves and preventing any nutritional deficiency
Author(s):
Margherita Caroli
Andrea Vania
Role Of Nutrients In Promoting Adiposity Development
The identification of risk factors is the key to prevention, however, until recently evidence on risk factors for childhood obesity was limited. The first studies were mainly cross sectional, and failed to identify associations between the child behaviour and the constitution of obesity. More recently, awareness is increasing for the importance of the environment in early life. The early adiposity rebound recorded in most obese subjects
Author(s):
Marie Françoise Rolland-Cachera, PhD
Silvia Scaglioni
Taste and Obesity
Understanding the links between taste perception and obesity would help authorities cope with obesity, which diminishes the health of human populations. This has been highlighted by a study of the impact of programs intended to educate obese adolescents about healthy diets (Pasquet et al., 2007)1. We present and discuss the results of this study in this chapter.
Author(s):
Claude Marcel Hladik
Emmanuel Cohen
Patrick Pasquet
Meaning And Assessment Of Satiety In Childhood
Subjective experience of appetite and learnt preferences for foods are important determinants of food choice and intake in children impacting upon what is eaten, how much and when. All of these drive consumption and potentially lead to excessive energy intake. While the operation of appetite can be considered asymmetrical, in that it defends against energy deficit rather than energy excess
Author(s):
Vassiliki Sinopoulou
Joanne Harrold
Jason Halford
To Binge Or Not To Binge?
Binge eating is the most common type of disordered eating behavior among obese children and adolescents. Because of its association with elevated levels of psychosocial distress, the experience of binge eating adds to the burden caused by obesity. In the current chapter, an overview will be provided of the conceptualization, prevalence, development and course of binge eating in obese youth.
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