Pediatric Food Preferences and Eating Behaviors

1. Measuring Sweet and Bitter Taste in Children: Individual Variation due to Age and Taste Genetics
Julie A. Mennella, Alissa A. Nolden, Nuala Bobowski
2. Learning to Like: Roles of Repeated Exposure and Other Types of Learning
Stephanie Anzman-Frasca, Sarah Ehrenberg
3. Effects of Modeling on Children’s Eating Behavior
J. Blissett
4. Children’s Challenging Eating Behaviors: Picky Eating, Food Neophobia,and Food Selectivity
Susan L. Johnson, Kameron J. Moding, Laura L. Bellows
5. Satiety Responsiveness and Eating Rate in Childhood: Development, Plasticity, and the Family Footprint
Brenda Burgess, Myles S. Faith
6. Role of Reward Pathways in Appetitive Drive and Regulation
Ashley N. Gearhardt
7. Appetitive Traits: Genetic Contributions to Pediatric Eating Behaviors
Alexis C. Wood
8. The Influence of the Food Environment on Food Intake and Weight Regulation in Children
Tanja V.E. Kral
9. Parenting Influences on Appetite and Weight
Sheryl O. Hughes, Thomas G. Power
10. Executive Function and Self-Regulatory Influences on Children’s Eating
L.A. Francis, N.R. Riggs
11. Neurocognitive Influences on Eating Behavior in Children
Kathleen L. Keller, Amanda S. Bruce
12. Development of Loss of Control Eating
Meghan Byrne, Marian Tanofsky-Kraff
13. Intentional Self-Regulation of Eating Among Children and Adolescents
Katherine W. Bauer, Sam Chuisano
14. Food Cognition and Nutrition Knowledge
Jasmine M. DeJesus, Katherine D. Kinzler, Kristin Shutts

Dr. Julie C. Lumeng is a developmental and behavioral pediatrician and Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Public Health at the University of Michigan. She earned her MD (1997) and completed Pediatric training (2000) at the University of Michigan, completed a fellowship in Developmental Behavioral Pediatrics at Boston University (2003), and has been on the faculty at the University of Michigan since 2003. She spends most of her time on research examining developmental and behavioral predictors of children’s eating behavior, particularly as they pertain to child obesity risk. She has been funded by the American Heart Association, National Institutes of Health, and the US Department of Agriculture. She Co-Chaired an NIH Workshop on Infant Obesity, and has served or currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Pediatrics and Pediatric Research. She is an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity. She serves as the Associate Director of the Momentum Center, a childhood obesity research center at the University of Michigan. Dr. Lumeng has authored or co-authored numerous scientific peer-reviewed manuscripts, as well as book chapters, review articles, and commentaries. She is a frequent invited speaker nationally on the topic of pediatric behavioral nutrition and childhood obesity, and her work has received frequent media attention in international outlets. She is an active member of the Obesity Society, American Academy of Pediatrics, Pediatric Academic Societies, and American Academy of Pediatrics.
Dr. Jennifer Orlet Fisher is a Professor in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at Temple University and Associate Director of the Center for Obesity Research and Education where she directs the Family Eating Laboratory. She holds graduate degrees in Nutrition from the University of Illinois (A.M., Nutritional Sciences, 1993) and from the Pennsylvania State University (PhD, Nutrition, 1997). Prior to her appo