{"id":14114,"date":"2013-06-28T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-06-28T20:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/?p=14114"},"modified":"2013-07-02T04:49:38","modified_gmt":"2013-07-02T08:49:38","slug":"study-suggests-eating-behaviors-of-preschoolers-may-be-related-to-future-risk-of-heart-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/06\/study-suggests-eating-behaviors-of-preschoolers-may-be-related-to-future-risk-of-heart-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"Study suggests eating behaviors of preschoolers may be related to future risk of heart disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <i>Canadian Medical Association Journal <\/i>press release via EurekAlert!:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/child_eating_apple.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-14025\" alt=\"child_eating_apple\" src=\"http:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/child_eating_apple.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><strong>Eating behaviours of preschoolers may be associated with risk of cardiovascular disease in later life<\/strong>, suggests a study published in <i>CMAJ<\/i> (<i>Canadian Medical Association Journal<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>A study of 1076 preschool children aged 3\u20135 years in the TARGet Kids! practice-based research network in Toronto, Ontario, <strong>looked at the link between eating habits and serum levels of non\u2013high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol,<\/strong> which is a surrogate marker of later cardiovascular risk.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Parents filled out questionnaires assessing eating behaviours, such as watching television while eating, dietary intake, parental concerns about activity levels and growth,<\/strong> screen time and use of supplements. Researchers measured height and weight of the children and their parents and took blood samples to examine lipid profile. They assigned a risk level based on the ethnicity of the parents because some groups are more prone to heart disease than others.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our results show that <strong>associations between eating behaviours and cardiovascular risk appear early in life and may be a potential target for early intervention<\/strong>,&#8221; writes Dr. Navindra Persaud, family physician and researcher at St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario. TARGet Kids! is a collaboration between family physicians, pediatricians and researchers from The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) Hospital, St. Michael&#8217;s Hospital and the University of Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eating behaviours as reported by parents via the NutriSTEP questionnaire were positively associated with serum non-HDL cholesterol levels in children aged 3\u20135 years,&#8221; write the authors. &#8220;<strong>The association between the eating behaviours subscore and serum non-HDL cholesterol persisted after controlling for age, sex, birth weight, zBMI<\/strong> (z-score body mass index), parental BMI, gestational diabetes and parental ethnicity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>Our results support previous arguments for interventions aimed at improving the eating behaviours of preschool-aged children<\/strong>,&#8221; write the authors. &#8220;To do so, evidence suggests promoting responsive feeding, where adults provide appropriate access to healthy foods and children use internal cues (not parent-directed cues or cues from the television) to determine the timing, pace and amount they consume.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Canadian Medical Association Journal press release via EurekAlert!: Eating behaviours of preschoolers may be associated with risk of cardiovascular disease in later life, suggests a study published in&#8230; <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/2013\/06\/study-suggests-eating-behaviors-of-preschoolers-may-be-related-to-future-risk-of-heart-disease\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,336,9],"tags":[45,134,208,35,73],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14114"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14488,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14114\/revisions\/14488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/therapytoronto.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}