Abstract

This study explored the association between autistic-like traits in young adults and dietary intake in early childhood in the Gen2 Raine Study cohort. Data were available from 811 participants at years 1, 2 and 3 for the assessment of dietary intake, and at year 20 for measurement of autistic-like traits. Results showed as autistic-like traits increased, total food variety, core food variety and dairy variety decreased (p < 0.05), with a lower consumption of citrus fruits and yoghurt (both p = 0.04). As autistic-like traits increased, diet quality decreased, this trend was significant at 2 years (p = 0.024). Our results suggest that young adults with higher autistic-like traits were more likely to have had lower food variety and diet quality in early childhood.

Document Type

Journal Article

Date of Publication

2021

Publication Title

Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders

Publisher

Springer

School

School of Medical and Health Sciences

RAS ID

32162

Funders

Edith Cowan University - Open Access Support Scheme 2020

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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Panossian, C., Lyons-Wall, P., Whitehouse, A., Oddy, W. H., Lo, J., Scott, J., & O’Sullivan, T. A. (2021). Young adults with high autistic-like traits displayed lower food variety and diet quality in childhood. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 51, 685 - 696.

https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-020-04567-4

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10.1007/s10803-020-04567-4

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10.1007/s10803-020-04567-4