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Parental Perceptions and Childhood Dietary Quality: Who Holds the Reins?

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This chapter will focus on diet quality in children and specifically the parental perception of diet quality and how this might impact eating behaviours.

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Abbreviations

BMI:

Body mass index

CDC:

Center for Disease Control

SES:

Socioeconomic status

UK:

United Kingdom

US:

United States of America

WHO:

World Health Organization

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Adamo, K.B., Brett, K.E. (2013). Parental Perceptions and Childhood Dietary Quality: Who Holds the Reins?. In: Preedy, V., Hunter, LA., Patel, V. (eds) Diet Quality. Nutrition and Health. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7339-8_14

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