Parents' use of emotional feeding increases emotional eating in school-age children

Parents' use of emotional feeding increases emotional eating in school-age children

Parents' use of emotional feeding increases emotional eating in school-age children

ScienceDaily, 25 April 2017

Source: Society for Research in Child Development
Emotional eating is not uncommon in children and adolescents, but why youth eat emotionally has been unclear. Now a new longitudinal study from Norway has found that school-age children whose parents fed them more to soothe their negative feelings were more likely to eat emotionally later on. The reverse was also found to be the case, with parents of children who were more easily soothed by food being more likely to feed them for emotional reasons...

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