Ana Daniela Ortega-Ramírez

Abstract Rapid weight gain (RWG) in early life is a significant risk factor for childhood obesity. Its multifactorial etiology warrants exploratory statistical and machine-learning analysis to aid early prediction.

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1 INTRODUCTION Eating behaviour is defined as the attitudes related to the selection and decision of which foods to eat (Freitas et al., 2018), including aspects such as food enjoyment, emotional eating, response to food and satiety and food fussiness (FF) (Wardle et al., 2001).