How We Eat is a review of the available evidence on the effect of selected eating behaviours on diet and body size. The topics reviewed are: breastfeeding, parental feeding practices and parenting style, adult role modelling, responsive eating, mealtimes and food literacy. A review of relevant New Zealand research was included.
The evidence was assessed using a process developed by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council.
The outcome of the review is a series of evidence statements for different life stages relating to the behaviours reviewed.
How We Eat is an issue-based document within the Eating and Activity Guidelines Series.
Publishing information
- Publication date
- Citation
Gerritsen S and Wall C. 2017. How We Eat – Reviews of the evidence on food and eating behaviours related to diet and body size. Wellington: Ministry of Health.
- ISBN
- Online: 978-1-98-850256-4
- HP number
- 6621
- Copyright status
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Owned by the Ministry of Health and licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.
