Feeding influence on infant intake regulation/overweight

描述（由申请人提供） 这个NIDDK指导研究科学家发展奖的申请是针对 在发起一项研究计划，调查早期的影响， 婴儿喂养对食物摄入和体重状态调节的相互作用 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， Leann Birch博士的监督，他是国际公认的领先的 食物接受的行为和环境决定因素专家 在幼儿中的模式。迄今为止，费舍尔博士的研究集中在 父母自己的饮食行为以及他们控制孩子喂养的方法 作为导致暴饮暴食的因素， 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如何尽早扩大她的研究专长， 涉及婴儿饥饿和饱足暗示的喂养相互作用可能会影响婴儿的饥饿感和饱足感。 在生命的最初几年里调节食物摄入和生长。她 近期目标是使用指导研究科学家发展奖 （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。关于MRSDA 将使她能够利用第一年的时间来实现这些目标， 母婴喂养相互作用的试点测试措施和 婴儿对摄入量的调节。供资期的第二年和第三年 将用于前瞻性随访3个月至12个月的婴儿， 一项评估母亲对婴儿饥饿和饱腹感不敏感的研究 作为食物摄入调节不良和体重状况较高的预测因素， 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，得克萨斯州休斯敦。美国农业部儿童 贝勒医学院营养研究中心拥有50多个 跨学科的研究人员，并具有悠久的研究传统 对婴儿发育和成长的影响。这种制度环境将有助于 通过提供必要的设施和 研究婴儿喂养和成长的设备。职业 候选人的发展将通过非正式和结构化的支持， 与在婴儿喂养领域具有专业知识的教师互动， 发展、能源消耗和增长。候选人将接受以下人员的指导： Nancy Butte博士在婴儿能量消耗领域拥有专业知识， 丹尼斯·比尔博士，一位儿科内分泌学家， 营养领域的领导经验;以及朱迪·霍普金森博士，她 在哺乳和婴儿喂养方面做了大量工作。MRSDA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展变化，以及 通过提供对母婴喂养不断变化的性质的认识， 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.