Demographic, familial and trait predictors of fruit and vegetable consumption by pre-school children

By L. Cooke, J. Wardle, E. Gibson, M. Sapochnik, A. Sheiham, M. Lawson. Public Health Nutrition, 2004

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A systematic review of environmental correlates of obesity-related dietary behaviors in youth. (2006, background): “At the household sociocultural level, positive associations were found for modeling (two out of two samples/studies) [21, 28] and parental intake of fruit/vegetables (six out of six samples) [16, 18, 21, 26, 30, 37].”
Age and gender differences in children's food preferences. (2005, positive): “These findings, together with previous studies of children’s fruit and vegetable intake, emphasise the need to consider them as separate variables (Gibson et al. 1998; Cooke et al. 2004).”
Creating healthy food and eating environments: policy and environmental approaches. (2008, background): “Parental fruit and vegetable intake has been associated with fruit and vegetable intake among youth (18, 27, 44) and may be the strongest predictor of fruit and vegetable consumption among young children (18).”