Recommended Citation
Postprint version. Published in Current Nutrition Reports, Volume 10, August 12, 2021, pages 413-426.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13668-021-00366-0.
Abstract
Purpose of Review Efforts to promote children’s preferences for healthy foods hold much potential for improving diet quality and preventing obesity. The purpose of this review was to summarize recent evidence for associations between maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation and child food preferences, dietary patterns, and weight outcomes.
Recent Findings Recent research illustrates greater maternal vegetable intakes during pregnancy and lactation predict greater child preferences for and intakes of vegetables. Recent randomized clinical trials to improve maternal weight outcomes during the perinatal period via behavioral lifestyle interventions that included dietary components have yielded mixed findings for effects on child weight outcomes.
Summary There is strong evidence that maternal diet during pregnancy and lactation shapes flavor preferences during infancy; more research is needed to understand factors that facilitate versus hinder the translation of these preferences to later dietary patterns and weight outcomes.
Disciplines
Kinesiology | Public Health
Copyright
© 2021. The Authors
Number of Pages
14
URL: https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/kine_fac/137