Chelsea Rose and Wendy Stein were awarded New Investigator Travel Awards (NITA) to give oral presentations at this year’s Society for the Study of Ingestive Behavior Meeting in Seattle. In addition, they will receive special recognition in the Annual Meeting Program during a special NITA Symposium and at the Annual Banquet.
Rose’s abstract, entitled, “Infant bottle emptying and parity are related to satiety responsiveness at age 6″ examines how eating behavior in early infancy and predicts satiety responsiveness (SR) at age 6 and if this relationship differs between primiparous and multiparous mothers and impacts child BMI. Compared to multiparous mothers, primiparous were more likely to report that their infant always finished the bottle, and these children of primiparous mothers had lower SR at 6y. Lower SR at 6y was associated with higher BMI z-score. These results suggest that eating behavior in early infancy has implications for child eating behavior and BMI later in childhood.
Stein’s abstract, entitled, “Evaluation of the theory of externality in 7-9 year-old children at two ad libitum test meals” looks at the relationship between Wardle’s Children’s Eating Behavior Questionnaire concepts of children’s food responsiveness to external food cues and satiety responsiveness to internal fullness cues, and children’s intake during branded and unbranded test-meals. Findings suggest that children who have high food responsivity and low satiety responsivity might be more susceptible to overeating in the presence of food cues.
Congratulations, Chelsea Rose and Wendy Stein!