APPETITE AND EATING BEHAVIOR IN CHILDREN

The authors propose that individual differences among children in the controls of food intake can be viewed in terms of differences in balan ce of power in feeding. They also argue that the individual difference s in styles of intake control that emerge by adolescence and adulthood , including chronic dieting, eating disorders, and out-of-control eati ng, begin in the early balance of control in the feeding context. Limi ted evidence suggests that the course of development of shared control differs for intermeal interval, food selection, and meal size.