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Anderson, Leslie Margaret; Anderson, Jim – Early Child Development and Care, 2010
Television viewing has been linked to the increasing problem of obesity in young children, as well as to the development of inappropriate eating behaviours, yet the mechanism behind this link remains unclear. This study investigated the messages about food and eating that appear in a sample of preschool children's television shows and found that…
Descriptors: Television Viewing, Obesity, Nutrition, Young Children
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Burnier, Daniel; Dubois, Lise; Girard, Manon – Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, 2011
Objective: To examine how arguments at mealtimes relate to children's daily energy intake. Design: A cross-sectional study using data obtained through the Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development 1998-2010 (QLSCD), a representative sample of children born in 1998, in the province of Quebec, Canada. Setting: Face-to-face interviews,…
Descriptors: Body Height, Physical Activities, Foreign Countries, Child Development
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Gillen, Julia; Hancock, Roger – Australian Journal of Early Childhood, 2006
This article reports on a specific aspect of a larger study of "a day in the life" of five two-and-a-half-year-old girls in families in Canada, Italy, Peru, Thailand and the UK. The larger study involved filming each of the five children in their family contexts for one whole day and studying a number of emerging themes related to the…
Descriptors: Females, Foreign Countries, Young Children, Eating Habits