ArticleEuropean journal of clinical nutrition2019
Growth and body composition in children who are picky eaters: a longitudinal view.
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- Development and validation of peaters choice, an intervention module for healthcare practitioners in managing picky eating among children aged 3-5 years.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Psychometric properties and factor structure of the Children's Eating Behavior Questionnaire in a Danish sample of children with overweight and obesity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- Do Children Who Were Preschool Picky Eaters Eat Different Foods at School Lunch When Aged 13 Years Than Their Non-Picky Peers?Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2025Article
- Nature and nurture in fussy eating from toddlerhood to early adolescence: findings from the Gemini twin cohort.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Risk Factors and Consequences of Food Neophobia and Pickiness in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Macronutrient Intake and Food Categories' Contribution to Daily Energy Intake According to BMI in Primary School Children in Croatia.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Stability of child appetitive traits and association with diet quality at 5 years and 9-11 years old: Findings from the ROLO longitudinal birth cohort study.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2024Article
- Assessing the Correlation between Blood Trace Element Concentrations, Picky Eating Habits, and Intelligence Quotient in School-Aged Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Effect of being a persistent picky eater on feeding difficulties in school-aged children.Appetite · 2023Article
- Optimal Protein Intake in Healthy Children and Adolescents: Evaluating Current Evidence.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Clinical Evolution of Preschool Picky Eater Children Receiving Oral Nutritional Supplementation during Six Months: A Prospective Controlled Clinical Trial.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
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- Association of Picky Eating with Weight and Height-The European Longitudinal Study of Pregnancy and Childhood (ELSPAC-CZ).Nutrients · 2022Article
- Picky Eating in School-Aged Children: Sociodemographic Determinants and the Associations with Dietary Intake.Nutrients · 2021Article
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- Being inspired: What we have learned about picky eating in childhood from using questionnaires on feeding practices and behaviors in a longitudinal birth cohort.Current research in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Eating behavior trajectories in the first 10 years of life and their relationship with BMI.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2020Article
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Abstract
BACKGROUND/
objectivesPicky eating may be associated with higher risk of being underweight and poor growth over time or conversely, being overweight. Our aim was to investigate if children identified as picky eaters showed differences in height, weight and body composition from their non-picky peers. SUBJECTS/
methodsPicky eaters were identified in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children cohort at 3 years of age. Height and weight were measured on seven occasions (age 7-17 years). Body composition was measured on five occasions by dual-energy x-ray absorptiometry (age 9-17 years). Participants were classified as thin/normal/overweight or obese at each age point using body mass index (BMI) classifications. Data were analysed with adjusted multiple regression analysis and mixed-design repeated measures ANOVA.
resultsThere was a main effect of being a picky child on height and weight (and on BMI and lean mass index (LMI) in boys) (lower in the picky children, all p ≤ 0.044), but not on percentage body fat or fat mass index (and not on BMI and LMI in girls) (all p > 0.2). The mean heights, weights and BMIs of picky eaters were consistently above the 50th centiles of reference growth charts. More than two-thirds of picky eaters were not thin at any age point. However, being a picky eater was predictive of being thin at a few age points.
conclusionsThe growth trajectories of children who were picky eaters were reassuring. The prevalence of thinness amongst some picky eaters is notable, suggesting that some children may need specific early identification, intervention and growth surveillance.
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