"Children who are instructed to “clean their plates” tend to be less responsive than children who were taught to focus on internal cues of hunger and fullness. Children whose parents were more focused on external cues of consumption, rather than trusting their children’s ability to accurately identify feelings of fullness, had lower self-regulation and greater eating in the absence of hunger. Low maternal support paired with high levels of control was associated with emotional eating which extended all the way into young adolescents. In other words, parent’s short term food goals may end up having long-lasting, and potentially negative, consequences down the road."
Posted on: Fri, 16 Aug 2013 16:19:47 +0000