Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children
Objective: To determine the dietary patterns of a national sample of 2–8-year-old Australian children and to establish whether breast-feeding is associated with dietary patterns in this age group.Design: Cross-sectional study using 24 h recall data from the 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrit...
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| description | Objective: To determine the dietary patterns of a national sample of 2–8-year-old Australian children and to establish whether breast-feeding is associated with dietary patterns in this age group.Design: Cross-sectional study using 24 h recall data from the 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey.Setting: Australia.Subjects: A total of 2287 children aged 2–8 years.Results: Principal component factor analysis identified three distinct patterns. The ‘Non-core food groups’ pattern included food groups such as whole-fat dairy products, cheese, medium–high sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals and sweet biscuits, no fruit, reduced/low-fat dairy products and wholegrain bread/rolls. The ‘Healthy, meat and vegetable’ pattern included vegetables, red meat, fruit and wholegrain bread/rolls and was inversely associated with take-away foods and carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages. The ‘Combination’ pattern contained many food groups including candy (not chocolate based), pasta/rice products, nuts/seeds, cakes and chocolate, but no fruit or vegetables. Of the 2287 children, 2064 (89.3%) had been breast-fed. A positive association was found betweenbreast-feeding and the healthy, meat and vegetable pattern (r=0.267) but not with the other two patterns. Higher scores on this pattern were also associated with younger age, lower BMI, higher birth weight, high likelihood of being in the less-disadvantaged Socio-economic Indexes for Areas category and less likelihood of the child’s parents having a lower educational level.Conclusions: These results provide suggestive evidence that breast-feeding during infancy is associated with a healthy dietary pattern in childhood and offers a likely pathway to explain the previously reported association between breast-feeding and chronic disease. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-77612017-02-28T01:31:22Z Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children Grieger, J. Scott, Jane Cobiac, L. Breast-feeding Factor analysis Eating patterns Children Objective: To determine the dietary patterns of a national sample of 2–8-year-old Australian children and to establish whether breast-feeding is associated with dietary patterns in this age group.Design: Cross-sectional study using 24 h recall data from the 2007 Australian National Children’s Nutrition and Physical Activity Survey.Setting: Australia.Subjects: A total of 2287 children aged 2–8 years.Results: Principal component factor analysis identified three distinct patterns. The ‘Non-core food groups’ pattern included food groups such as whole-fat dairy products, cheese, medium–high sugar-sweetened breakfast cereals and sweet biscuits, no fruit, reduced/low-fat dairy products and wholegrain bread/rolls. The ‘Healthy, meat and vegetable’ pattern included vegetables, red meat, fruit and wholegrain bread/rolls and was inversely associated with take-away foods and carbonated sugar-sweetened beverages. The ‘Combination’ pattern contained many food groups including candy (not chocolate based), pasta/rice products, nuts/seeds, cakes and chocolate, but no fruit or vegetables. Of the 2287 children, 2064 (89.3%) had been breast-fed. A positive association was found betweenbreast-feeding and the healthy, meat and vegetable pattern (r=0.267) but not with the other two patterns. Higher scores on this pattern were also associated with younger age, lower BMI, higher birth weight, high likelihood of being in the less-disadvantaged Socio-economic Indexes for Areas category and less likelihood of the child’s parents having a lower educational level.Conclusions: These results provide suggestive evidence that breast-feeding during infancy is associated with a healthy dietary pattern in childhood and offers a likely pathway to explain the previously reported association between breast-feeding and chronic disease. 2011 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7761 Cambridge University Press restricted |
| spellingShingle | Breast-feeding Factor analysis Eating patterns Children Grieger, J. Scott, Jane Cobiac, L. Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title | Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title_full | Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title_fullStr | Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title_short | Dietary Patterns and Breast-Feeding in Australian Children |
| title_sort | dietary patterns and breast-feeding in australian children |
| topic | Breast-feeding Factor analysis Eating patterns Children |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/7761 |