In the recent ‘‘EuropeaN Energy balance Research to prevent
excessive weight Gain among Youth’’ (ENERGY)-project, [19] a
wide range of physical and sociocultural family factors related to
children’s breakfast consumption were measured. [20] This
project provided the opportunity to explore the associations
between family-related factors and children’s breakfast consumption.
In addition, given the evidence that skipping breakfast is a
predictor of overweight, we also wanted to investigate how familyrelated
factors concerning breakfast consumption and children’s
breakfast consumption relate to children’s BMI-z-score, and
whether children’s breakfast consumption influences the relation
between the family-related factors and children’s BMI-z-score. To
our best knowledge, no studies have examined the relation
between family-related variables and children’s BMI-z-score or
investigated the mediating effect of children’s breakfast intake on
these relations.