ArticleNutrients2020
Lifestyle Patterns Begin in Early Childhood, Persist and Are Socioeconomically Patterned, Confirming the Importance of Early Life Interventions.
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Nutrition Education Intervention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption in Preschoolers
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87 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Digital Interventions Targeting Parents to Improve Early Childhood Movement, Nutrition, and Sleep Behaviors: Systematic Review.Journal of medical Internet research · 2026Pooled it
- Physical Activity Levels of Early Childhood Educators: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Child: care, health and development · 2026Pooled it
- Tracking and changes in the clustering of physical activity, sedentary behavior, diet, and sleep across childhood and adolescence: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions for increasing fruit and vegetable consumption in children aged five years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2024Pooled it
- Clustering of diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour and related physical and mental health outcomes: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2023Pooled it
- Preschool- and childcare center-based interventions to increase fruit and vegetable intake in preschool children in the United States: a systematic review of effectiveness and behavior change techniques.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Pooled it
- Shaping Pathways to Child Health: A Systematic Review of Street-Scale Interventions in City Streets.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- Measurement of screen time among young children aged 0-6 years: A systematic review.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2021Pooled it
- Teaching healthy lifestyle behaviors based on philosophical thinking to preschool children: a randomized controlled trial.BMC public health · 2025Trial
- FirstStep2Health: A cluster randomised trial to promote healthy behaviours and prevent obesity amongst low-income preschoolers.Pediatric obesity · 2024Trial
- The Impact of COVID-19 on Eating Environments and Activity in Early Childhood Education and Care in Alberta, Canada: A Cross-Sectional Study.Nutrients · 2021Trial
- Maternal knowledge explains screen time differences 2 and 3.5 years post-intervention in INFANT.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Effects of the Preschool-Based Family-Involving DAGIS Intervention on Family Environment: A Cluster Randomised Trial.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Physical Activity-Sedentary Behaviour Profiles and Co-Occurring Lifestyle Behaviours Among Adolescents: A Person-Oriented Analysis.Nutrients · 2026Article
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- Toddler diet quality: a factor associated with childhood growth?International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Association of early childhood lifestyle patterns with overweight in preschoolers and timing of adiposity rebound.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2026Article
- Associations of Family Physical Activity Support and 24-Hour Movement Behaviors with Physical Fitness in Preschool Children: A Focus on MVPA.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Lifestyle behaviours in children born extremely preterm at 2 years: a comparison to a Dutch reference population.European journal of pediatrics · 2026Article
- Embedding brain health in the curriculum: a qualitative study of primary school teacher perceptions.BMC public health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Traditional approaches to understanding the behavioural determinants of adiposity have considered diet, physical activity and sedentary behaviour in isolation. Although integrative approaches have identified a variety of lifestyle patterns in children at preschool-age or older, along with some variability by socio-economic positions, this has rarely been examined in younger cohorts. We aimed to identify lifestyle patterns at 1.5, 3.5 and 5 years, including dietary intake, outdoor time and television viewing time, to assess associations with maternal education (as a proxy for socio-economic position), and to investigate their persistence between toddlerhood and preschool age. Participants were 417 and 293 children aged 1.5 y from the Melbourne Infant Feeding Activity and Nutrition Trial (InFANT) and InFANT Extend Programs, respectively. Data were collected using questionnaires at child ages 1.5, 3.5 and 5 y (InFANT); and 1.5 and 3.5 y (InFANT Extend). Principal component analysis was undertaken at each time point on the separate and pooled datasets. Associations between the lifestyle patterns scores and maternal education were assessed with multivariable regression analysis. Two lifestyle patterns ("Discretionary consumption and TV" and "Fruit, vegetables and outdoor") were identified as early as 1.5 y. They remained consistent across ages and were evident in both datasets. These patterns were inversely and positively associated with maternal education, respectively. Such early clustering of obesity related energy balance behaviours and tracking during early childhood suggests there may be shared antecedents common to the individual behaviours that could be targeted for intervention. Our findings provide support for interventions targeting multiple behaviours and tailored to the level of family socio-economic disadvantage.
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