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What is a Typical part of eating?
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such as messy eating and limited food preferences are part of typical eating development
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What determines food preferences in the long run?
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Very early in development children will learn food preferences and eating habits
-For example oatmeal with or without sugar? -Portion control -Water or juice |
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What are the risk in being of being obese as a child?
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Being overweight as a child increases that child’s risk for obesity and will make it more difficult for them to maintain a healthy weight as adults
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What is Leptin?
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Leptin, a hormone produced by adipose tissue to help regulate hunger is positively correlated with BMI
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Obesity Treatments
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-Nutritional counseling (note that this does not mean dieting) for child and parents
-Exchanging sedentary lifestyle for a more active one -Changing thought patterns and enhancing child’s self-management |
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What is Feeding Disorders?
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-Affect up to 1/3 of all children
-Typically develop in the first 2 years of life -Are troublesome because they increase the risk of developmental issues such as failure to grow -Can be the cause of a preexisting condition or illness |
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What is PICA?
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-Is the injestion of inedible substances such as hair, paper, chalk, or paint
-Most often seen in very young children and children with MR -Can be dangerous if the child in eating paint chips that contain led |
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What is Treating Pica
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-It’s unclear what causes Pica
-Little empirical research about how to treat Pica in children -Most Clinicians treat Pica with operant conditioning and encouraging increased parental supervision |
