18 Sep 2018 --- Parents report a high level of concern over the long-term health consequences for their fussy eating children, leading them to adopt non-responsive feeding practices such as pressuring or rewarding for eating, says a study published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior. Although fussy eating is a developmentally normal and transient phase for most children, the behavior can be stressful. The study notes, however, that parental responses can be detrimental to the long-term health of the children, leading to unhealthy food preferences in the future, for example.
