The development of food preferences
1981
Wyrwicka, Wanda
Abstract: A reference text for nutritionists, psychobiologists, pediatricians, and clinicians describes experimental work on the selection of foods by young animals exposed to the example of their mother, and the potential application of the results to humans. The 25 topics of the text are organized under 6 principal themes including the early stages of feeding behavior in rats and birds; social influences on independent feeding development in rat pups and birds; the maternal influence on such development in weanling kittens; mechanisms involved in the development of food preferences; the persistence of early food preferences in later life; and the advantages and disadvantages of parental influence on food preferences of offspring. A summary is given at the end of each of the 6 chapters, and a general overview summary is appended. (wz).
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