Abstract:
Healthy eating in children is important to prevent child nutritional health problem
such as undemutrition, growth retardation, obesity, type-2 diabetes and coronary heart
disease that are categorized as a long term health problems among children. Other
than that, parents can be a role model and as the first counselor to them in selecting or
providing nutritious food or meal to support the growth constantly and it should
initially begin at home. The purpose of this study is to determine the parents
knowledge and attitude of healthy eating regardingchildren diets, investigating the
most significant factors influencing healthy eating amongchildren, examining
relationship between parents overall attitude towards healthy eating and children diet
and also relationship with children BMI. This study used the questionnaire that is
modified from Diet Health Knowledge Survey (DHKS), Food Pyramid
recommendation by Ministry of Health Malaysia and other sources.
