Health visitors, GPs, play therapists and other professionals spend a good deal of time trying to help children who are picky eaters or refuse food.
A study in the March issue of the British Journal of Psychiatry recommends that successful treatment of child feeding problems requires a reorganisation of family meals and an improvement in the quality of the mother-child relationship.
In a previous study, the researchers found that children with feeding problems were 11 times more likely to have a mother with an eating disorder.
There was a strong association between child feeding problems and maternal eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia.
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