Table 1.

Values are means and standard deviations from the mean. No significant differences were found between healthy weight and obese children on age, gender, or race. As expected, obese children, relative to healthy weight, had a significantly higher BMI (p < 0.001). Obese children, relative to healthy weight, also had significantly greater scores on six measures of the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire Parent-Report (CEBQ-PR) (i.e., Food Responsiveness, p < 0.001; Emotional Over Eating, p < 0.05; Enjoyment of Food, p < 0.01; Satiety Responsiveness, p < 0.01; Slowness of Eating, p < 0.05; Food Fussiness, p = 0.05), and tended to score higher on EAH (p < 0.07). P values derived from T-test.

Subject Demographics	Healthy Weight (N=13)	Obese (N=12)
N, female	5 (38.4%)	5 (42%)
Age, years	10.38 ± 1.26	10.08 ± 1.00
BMI, kg/m2	17.71 ± 1.90	26.10 ± 3.23***
Ethnicity
N, White	8 (62%)	6 (50%)
N, Black	5 (38%)	5 (42%)
N, Asian	0	1 (8%)
EAH	9.63 ± 2.96	17.10 ± 2.50
Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire (Parent-Report)
Food Responsiveness	2.20 ± 0.23	3.92 ± 0.34***
Emotional Over Eating	1.60 ± 0.17	2.60 ± 0.41*
Enjoyment of Food	3.79 ± 0.13	4.58 ± 0.20**
Desire to Drink	2.36 ± 0.14	2.90 ± 0.39
Satiety Responsiveness	2.74 ± 0.15	1.94 ± 0.19**
Slowness of Eating	2.62 ± 0.13	1.86 ± 0.24*
Emotional Under Eating	2.83 ± 0.26	2.93 ± 0.28
Food Fussiness	2.40 ± 0.18	3.22 ± 0.33*

^*p < 0.05,

^**p<0.01,

^***p < 0.001