Volume 06, Issue 04
Frequency: 12 Issue per year
Paper Submission: Throughout the Month
Acceptance Notification: Within 2 days
Areas Covered: Multidisciplinary
Accepted Language: Multiple Languages
Journal Type: Online (e-Journal)
ISSN Number:
2582-8568
Parents are the gatekeepers for the shaping and also determining the foods availability at the house to fulfil the nutritional needs of their child.Preschool children eating behaviour and their peers eating can change the child food habits. Performance is influenced by peer’s decisions on food choices. Initially disliked foods can be accepted and frequently consumed by the child.Parental monitoring helps in choosing the appropriate and healthy foods in place of fast, junk or lower calories food contents. Healthy eating behaviour of a child can be developed by influence of peers and family members.The discussions concluded parents and peers are the better judges for child food choices and nutrition. Hence peers and parent’s food choices should be based on home prepared foods which are nutritious. Also, peers and parents’ impact on food choices and food selection is more or less identical.
Parents, peers, influence