title: [Maternal eating disorders and their influence on eating behavior of the children: a review of the literature].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is conclusive evidence about the influence of mothers with eating disorders (ED) on their children.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  To describe different aspects about mothers with ED and its implications in the feeding, growing and development in their children.
  
  
  METHODS
  A review of specialized textbooks and the available literature in PubMed was made.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mothers with previous or present ED show restrictive eating patterns, a deficient affective bond with their own mothers, exhibit more psychiatric comorbidities, mainly depression and anxiety; in addition, feelings of guilt and shame, early cessation of breastfeeding, high control of food consumption of their children, and/or pressure them to eat, irregular mealtimes, unbalanced and monotonous meals, proneness to slimness, a critical attitude about the body shape of their daughters. Breastfeeding implies a critical period for the irruption or relapse of an ED due to the adjustment to the characteristic body shape changes during pregnancy.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There is a particular relationship between a maternal ED and its occurrence in their children, and it can be considered a risk factor for its development.
authors.forename: Rosa
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Behar A
authors.forename: Marcelo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Arancibia M
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000453:epidemiology; D003863:Depression / Q000453:epidemiology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D001068:Feeding and Eating Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006167:Guilt; D006801:Humans; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000523:psychology; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology; D011247:Pregnancy; D012752:Shame