The Food Parenting Practices (FPP)28 questionnaire consisted of 43 items that measured the primary caregivers’ food practices and frequency of those practices in terms of being: (a) permissive (permissive/restriction rules); (b) authoritarian (pressure and encouragement through material reward); and, (C) authoritative (verbal praise and encouragement/discouragement through rationale). Items addressing the type of practice included statements such as: ‘”If my child asks for sweets or biscuits, I will give them to him/her”; and, “My child has to finish the food on his/her plate.” All items were measured using a five-point Likert—type scale: 1 = never; 2 = mostly not; 3 = sometimes/ sometimes not; .4 = mostly; and 5 = always. Items addressing the frequency of the type of food practices included statements such as: “How often do you tell your child fruit is good for you”; and, “When I compose a meal, I consider the preferences of my child.” All items measuring frequency of food practices were assessed on a five-point Like11—type scale: 1 = less than once a week; 2 = once a week; 3 = several times a week; 4 = daily; and, 5 = several times a day. A total score for each of the three types of feeding practices, and the frequency of use, was obtained by summing across all relevant items. In this study, caregivers who obtained a total score, for the specific type of feeding practice and the frequency of its use, above the mean were identified