2000 Volume 11 Issue 3 Pages 223-240
We used female students (junior high, high school, and college) and their parents as subjects and assessed the eating behavior of the parents and children by investigating the passing down of drinking behavir (in the broad sense), preferences and drinking behavior (in the narrow sense: drinks or does not drink beverages), food habits (skipping breakfast/between meal types), degree of obesity, awareness of obesity, symptoms, and number of bottles ingested, and the following results were obtained.
1) Beverages often drunk by both parents and children consisted of green tea, oolong tea, and milk, while sweet beverages, i. e., fruit juice beverages, lactobacillus beverages, coffee, black tea (suger added), cola, carbonated beverages, and isotonic beverages were drunk in the following order: mothers<fathers<children.
2) Parent-child differences were: 1) green tea, oolong tea, milk, for college students: child<father
2) sweet beverages and isotonic drinks, for junior high school students, high school students, and college students: child<father and mother, and in every instance the differences were significant.
3) The results for the junior high school students showed that the parents and children drank several types of beverages within the home, and the proportion of all of the mothers who drank cola and black tea (with/without suger) at home because they enjoyed them was high. The beverages that were drunk by each of the age brackets at home and outside were green tea and oolong tea, and the beverages that were drunk at mealtime and outside were milk, green tea, and oolong tea. Children and parents drank sweet beverages both at mealtimes outside and outside.
4) Childrenis most common reason for choosing the beverages that they consumed was that they liked them or for the physiological reason that they were thirsty, while parents chose them consciously, saying that they were thirsty and that milk and vegetable juice are good for the health.
According to preference, the beverages that were most liked in every age bracket were green tea, oolong tea, milk, fruit juice beverages, and lactobacillus beverages.The order of the proportions of subjects who liked fruit juice beverages was as follows: fathers<mothers<children.
5) Children and mothers said that while they disliked vegetable juice and low-fatmilk, they drink them because they are good for the health, and children drank sweet beverages giving preference as the reason for drinking them.
Many of the fathers of the junior high school students tended to be obese, and they were conscious of being obese, and the children and mother were aware of obesity and were overly conscious of their own body type.
6) Many of the children ate other foods or fruit instead of the staple food, and many of them complained of fatigue.
7) Many of the fathers of junior high school students who tended to be obese, although being aware of obesity, liked to drink green tea, oolong tea, milk, sweet beverages, and isotonic beverages. Moreover, they often consumed snack confectionery and skipped breakfast.
9) Mothers liked green tea, oolong tea, milk, and sweet beverages, and while aware of obesity, many of them drank such beverages.
10) All of the Children consumed more bottles of beverages per day and more bottles of sweet beverages than their parents.Moreover, the junior high school students who tended to be obese drank more bottles than those in the other categories, and those who ate foods other than the staple food and Western-style confections tended to drink more.
The mothers of college students who tended to be obese were aware of obesity, and those who often ate between meals and skipped breakfast drank more bottles of these beverages and sweet beverages.
