Feeding influence on infant intake regulation/overweight

描述(由申请人提供) NIDDK导师研究科学家发展奖申请旨在 在启动一个研究计划，调查早期的影响 婴儿喂养对食物摄入量和体重状态调节的交互作用 在生命的第一年。候选人詹妮弗·费舍尔博士 完成了近10年的研究生和研究生培训 监督Leann Birch博士，他是国际公认的领先的 食品接受度的行为和环境决定因素专家 年幼儿童的模式。到目前为止，费舍尔博士的研究主要集中在 父母自己的饮食行为及其对控制儿童喂养的使用 习惯是导致暴饮暴食和 幼儿超重。作为一名新的独立研究人员，费舍尔博士 长期目标是通过考虑多早扩大她的研究专长 涉及婴儿饥饿和饱满暗示的喂养交互作用可能会影响 调节生命最初几年的食物摄入量和生长。她 眼前的目标是利用导师研究科学家发展奖 (MRSDA)获得培训并制定措施，使她能够 开始在这一领域建立一个独立的研究计划。美国食品药品监督管理局 将使她能够通过使用第一年来开发和实现这些目标 母婴喂养相互作用的中试措施和一项措施 婴儿对摄入量的调节。资助期的第二年和第三年 将用于前瞻性地跟踪婴儿从3个月到12个月的年龄 一项评估母亲对婴儿饥饿和饱满提示不敏感的研究 作为食物摄入量调节不良和体重状况较高的预测因子 婴儿。拟议的工作将在美国农业部儿童营养中心进行 研究，贝勒医学院，休斯顿，德克萨斯州。美国农业部儿童基金会 贝勒医学院营养研究中心容纳了50多人 跨学科的研究人员，有着悠久的研究传统 关于婴儿发育和成长的问题。这种制度环境将为 通过提供必要的设施和 用于进行婴儿喂养和生长研究的设备。职业生涯 候选人的发展将通过非正式和结构化的方式得到支持 与在婴儿喂养领域拥有专业知识的教职员工进行互动， 发展、能源消耗和增长。候选人将由以下人员指导 南希·巴特博士，她在婴儿能量消耗和 增长；丹尼斯·比尔博士，一位儿科内分泌学家，他有广泛的 营养领域的领导经验；朱迪·霍普金森博士，他 在哺乳和婴儿喂养方面做了大量工作。美国农业部将提供 为候选人的职业发展计划提供关键支持 在测量婴儿生长和身体成分方面的培训， 婴儿喂养能力和婴儿营养的发育变化，以及 通过提供对母婴喂养性质变化的欣赏 婴儿期的互动。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant) This NIDDK Mentored Research Scientist Development Award application is aimed at initiating a program of research which investigates the influence of early infant feeding interactions on the regulation of food intake and weight status during the first year of life. The candidate, Dr. Jennifer Fisher, has completed close to 10 years of graduate and post-graduate training under the supervision of Dr. Leann Birch, who is internationally recognized as a leading expert on the behavioral and environmental determinants of food acceptance patterns in young children. To date, Dr. Fisher's research has focused both on parents' own eating behaviors as well as their use of controlling child feeding practices as contributing factors to the development of overeating and overweight in young children. As a newly independent researcher, Dr. Fisher's long-term goals are to expand her research expertise by considering how early feeding interactions involving infant hunger and fullness cues may affect the regulation of food intake and growth during the first years of life. Her immediate goals are to use the Mentored Research Scientist Development Award (MRSDA) to acquire training and to develop measures that will enable her to begin to establish an independent program of research in this area. The MRSDA will allow her to address these goals by using the first year to develop and pilot test measures of maternal-infant feeding interactions and a measure of infant regulation of intake. The second and third year of the funding period will be used to prospectively follow infants from 3 mo to 12 mo of age in a study that evaluates maternal insensitivity to infant hunger and fullness cues as a predictor of poor food intake regulation and higher weight status among infants. The proposed work will be conducted at the USDA Children's Nutrition Research, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston Texas. The USDA Children's Nutrition Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine houses more than 50 inter-disciplinary researchers and has a long established tradition of research on infant development and growth. This institutional environment will lend tremendous support to the application by providing the necessary facilities and equipment to conduct research on infant feeding and growth. The career development of the candidate will be supported through informal and structured interactions with faculty who have expertise in the area of infant feeding, development, energy expenditure, and growth. The candidate will be mentored by Dr. Nancy Butte, who has expertise in the area of infant energy expenditure and growth; Dr. Dennis Bier, a pediatric endocrinologist who has extensive leadership experience in the field of nutrition; and Dr. Judy Hopkinson, who has worked extensively on lactation and infant feeding. The MRSDA will provide critical support of the candidate's career development plan by providing training in the measurement of infant growth and body composition, developmental changes in infant feeding capabilities and infant nutrition, and by providing an appreciation of the changing nature of mother-infant feeding interactions during infancy.