Like parent, like child? Dietary resemblance in families.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Studies investigating dietary resemblance between parents and their children have gained mixed results, and the resemblance seems to vary across nutrients, foods, dietary-assessment tools used, and parent-child pairs. We investigated parent-child dietary resemblance using a novel approach in applying statistical analysis, which allowed the comparison of 'whole-diet' between parents and their children. Additionally, we sought to establish whether sociodemographic factors or family meals were associated with dietary resemblance and whether parent-child dietary resemblance was dependent on the parent providing food consumption data on behalf of the child (father or mother, "the respondent").

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Vepsalainen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6031178 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature