Table 1.
Term | Definition | Example(s) |
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Unhealthy weight-related behaviors | A broad category of behaviors reported by children and young people that stand in contrast the development of a healthy body weight and a healthy relationship with food. | Dieting, unhealthy weight control practices, eating in the absence of hunger, emotional eating, dietary restraint, emotional disinhibition, and binge eating. |
Unhealthy weight control practices | Unhealthy behaviors an individual engages in with the goal of weight loss or preventing healthy weight gain. | Fasting, skipping meals, smoking more cigarettes, taking diet pills or laxatives, or purging. |
Food-related parenting practices | The techniques that parents use to influence children’s eating, food choices, or food intake patterns. | Parents encouraging children to eat, or not eat, specific foods; requiring children to clean their plate at mealtimes; rewarding behaviors with favorite foods; and restricting the intake of particular foods (both healthy and unhealthy). |
Food restriction | When parents limit or restrict their child’s intake of certain foods or use a highly desired food item as a reward for consuming a less desirable food item. | Parents only allowing their child to eat dessert after the child has consumed a full serving of vegetables. This results in restriction of child’s access to the dessert item until a particular requirement is met. |
Pressure-to-eat | When parents prompt or pressure their child to consume a certain amount of food or more of a particular type of food. | Parents requiring their child to eat all of the food on their plate prior to completing a meal. |
Dietary restraint | Cognitive restriction of food intake. | Actively avoiding food despite feeling hungry and enjoyment of the food available. |
Eating in the absence of hunger | Consumption of food despite feeling physically satiated. | Feeling satiated after consumption of a meal, but continuing to seek out food and/or eat food as it is made available. |
Disinhibited eating | Loss of inhibition and self-regulation resulting in eating in response to external cues, including emotional stressors, or the sight or odor of foods. | Feeling satiated after consumption of a meal, but continuing to seek out food and/or eat food as it is made available, because you enjoy the way it smells or tastes or in response to a stressful event in your life. |
Negative self-evaluation of food and eating | Negative judgment of and internalization of associated negative feelings about choices made with regard to food or eating. | Feeling guilty or shameful after eating a particular food item or a certain amount of a food item. |
Emotional disinhibition | Eating in response to emotions such as boredom, anger, or sadness. | Experiencing a fight with a friend and eating ice cream or another palatable food in an effort to sooth hurt feelings. |
Disregulation of innate self-regulation mechanisms | Disruption of an individual’s ability to respond to physical hunger and satiety cues in a way that results in overconsumption of the amount of calories needed to maintain a healthy weight or promote appropriate weight gain. | An individual regularly eating more food than needed to feel satiated so that they can no longer sense physical hunger and satiety cues. |
Terms included in this table have been denoted with a * the first time they appear in the text of the paper.