This study explored risk parameters of obesity in food decision-making in mother-child dyads. We tested 45 children between 8-12 years and their biological mothers to measure the decision weights of food health attributes, the decision weights of food taste attributes, self-regulated food decisions, and self-reported self-control scores. Maternal body mass index (BMI), and children’s BMI-percentiles-for-age were also measured. We found a positive correlation between children’s and their mothers’ decision weights of taste attributes in food decision-making. We also found a positive correlation between children’s BMI %iles and their mothers’ BMIs. Children with overweight/obesity demonstrated lower decision weights of health attributes and a lower percentage of self-regulated food decisions (i.e., resisting to eat tasty but unhealthy foods or choosing to eat not-tasty but healthy foods) than children with healthy weight. Our findings suggested that the decision weights of taste attributes and weight status shared similar patterns in mother-child dyads. Also, the findings suggested that establishing dynamics of unhealthy food-decision making may increase the risk of childhood obesity. Helping children to develop the dynamics of healthy food-decision making by increasing the importance of health while decreasing the importance of taste may promote resilience to susceptibility to unhealthy eating and weight gain.

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母子对食物决策的共享动态

本研究探讨了母子二人组食物决策中肥胖的风险参数。我们测试了 45 名 8-12 岁的儿童及其亲生母亲，以测量食物健康属性的决策权重、食物口味属性的决策权重、自我调节的食物决策和自我报告的自我控制分数。还测量了母亲体重指数（BMI）和儿童年龄别BMI百分位数。我们发现儿童和他们的母亲在食物决策中的口味属性决策权重之间存在正相关关系。我们还发现儿童的 BMI 百分比与其母亲的 BMI 呈正相关。超重/肥胖儿童的健康属性决策权重较低，自我调节食物决策的百分比较低（即，拒绝吃美味但不健康的食物或选择吃不好吃但健康的食物）比体重健康的儿童。我们的研究结果表明，味觉属性和体重状态的决策权重在母子二元组中具有相似的模式。此外，研究结果表明，建立不健康食品决策的动态可能会增加儿童肥胖的风险。通过增加健康的重要性同时降低口味的重要性来帮助儿童发展健康食品决策的动态，这可能会促进对不健康饮食和体重增加的敏感性。研究结果表明，建立不健康食品决策的动态可能会增加儿童肥胖的风险。通过增加健康的重要性同时降低口味的重要性来帮助儿童发展健康食品决策的动态，这可能会促进对不健康饮食和体重增加的敏感性。研究结果表明，建立不健康食品决策的动态可能会增加儿童肥胖的风险。通过增加健康的重要性同时降低口味的重要性来帮助儿童发展健康食品决策的动态，这可能会促进对不健康饮食和体重增加的敏感性。