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| Julie C LumengSummaryAffiliation: University of Michigan Country: USA Publications
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Observed assertive and intrusive maternal feeding behaviors increase child adiposityJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5406, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 95:640-7. 2012..Few studies have examined observed maternal feeding behaviors and their potential association with child adiposity. The association between maternal prompting to eat and child adiposity has been inconsistent...
Social influences on formula intake via suckling in 7 to 14-week-old-infantsJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Dev Psychobiol 49:351-61. 2007..Thus, social influences exert strong immediate impacts on suckling. Accordingly, suckling functions to obtain both nutrition from and social information about the feeder...- Providing information about a flavor to preschoolers: effects on liking and memory for having tasted itJulie C Lumeng
Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Chem Senses 32:505-13. 2007..We conclude that providing affectively positive information to children about a flavor can increase their ability to recognize the flavor as previously tasted and increases hedonic rating of the flavor in children older than 4.5 years... - Shorter sleep duration is associated with increased risk for being overweight at ages 9 to 12 yearsJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0406, USA
Pediatrics 120:1020-9. 2007..The objective of this study was to test the independent associations of sleep duration and problems with overweight risk in children... - Epidemiology of pediatric obstructive sleep apneaJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, and Department of Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Proc Am Thorac Soc 5:242-52. 2008..Less convincing data exist to prove differences in prevalence based on age. We conclude by outlining specific future research needs in the epidemiology of pediatric SDB... 
Ability to taste 6-n-propylthiouracil and BMI in low-income preschool-aged childrenJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 16:1522-8. 2008..Sensitivity to the bitter compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) is genetically mediated. Sensitivity to PROP has been associated with weight status in both adults and children...- Children's use of adult testimony to guide food selectionJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, 300 NIB, 10th Floor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Appetite 51:302-10. 2008..Providing information to children that a food is palatable in absolute terms also appears to shape children's food selection more powerfully than providing the information in comparative terms... - Head Start teachers' perceptions of children's eating behavior and weight status in the context of food scarcityJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0406, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 40:237-43. 2008..To describe Head Start teachers' perceptions of mealtime, feeding, and overweight risk in Head Start students... - Changes in body mass index z score over the course of the academic year among children attending Head StartJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109 0406, USA
Acad Pediatr 10:179-86. 2010..We tested the hypothesis that among 3- to 5-year-old children attending Head Start, body mass index z score will decline during the academic year and increase during the summer... - Pre-natal exposures to cocaine and alcohol and physical growth patterns to age 8 yearsJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
Neurotoxicol Teratol 29:446-57. 2007.... - Weight status as a predictor of being bullied in third through sixth gradesJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, 300 North Ingalls St, 10th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5406, USA
Pediatrics 125:e1301-7. 2010..The objective of this study was to determine the relationship between childhood obesity and being bullied in third, fifth, and sixth grades while testing for potential confounding and moderation... - Association between clinically meaningful behavior problems and overweight in childrenJulie C Lumeng
Division of Behavioral and Developmental Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine and Boston Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 112:1138-45. 2003..To determine whether there is a relationship between clinically meaningful behavior problems and concurrent and future overweight in 8- to 11-year-old children... - Preschool child care and risk of overweight in 6- to 12-year-old childrenJ C Lumeng
Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 29:60-6. 2005..To determine if there is a relationship between center-based child care attendance from ages 3 to 5 y and future overweight at ages 6-12 y... - The association between flavor labeling and flavor recall ability in childrenJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, 300 North Ingalls Building, 10th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Chem Senses 30:565-74. 2005..We conclude that language mediates memory for flavors in young children... - Neighborhood safety and overweight status in childrenJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, 300 North Ingalls Building 10th Floor, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:25-31. 2006..To determine if there is a relationship between parental perception of neighborhood safety and overweight at the age of 7 years... - Television exposure and overweight risk in preschoolersJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development and Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 160:417-22. 2006..To test the independent effect of television exposure in preschool-aged children on overweight risk... - Maternal prompts to eat, child compliance, and mother and child weight statusJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, and Department of Pediatrics, Division of Child Behavioral Health, 300 North Ingalls Building, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
J Pediatr 149:330-335. 2006..To determine if there is a relationship between maternal prompting to eat, child compliance, and mother and child weight... - Eating in larger groups increases food consumptionJulie C Lumeng
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
Arch Dis Child 92:384-7. 2007..To determine whether children's food consumption is increased by the size of the group of children in which they are eating... - Maternal perception of neighborhood safety as a predictor of child weight status: The moderating effect of gender and assessment of potential mediatorsJason M Bacha
Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 5:72-9. 2010..To determine if there is a relationship between maternal perception of neighborhood safety in 3(rd) grade and weight status in 5(th) grade children, to test if gender moderates this relationship, and to identify potential mediators... - Ability to delay gratification at age 4 years and risk of overweight at age 11 yearsDesiree M Seeyave
Department of Emergency Medicine, and Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5406, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 163:303-8. 2009.... - Maternal feeding practices become more controlling after and not before excessive rates of weight gainKyung E Rhee
Department of Pediatrics, Brown Medical School, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1724-9. 2009..However, early increases in zBMI among girls were associated with later increases in CMFP. Clarifying the relationship between maternal feeding practices and child weight will inform future recommendations... - Controlling maternal feeding practices associated with decreased dieting behavior in sixth-grade childrenKyung E Rhee
Department of Pediatrics, Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI 02903, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 110:619-23. 2010..Further work is needed to better define which controlling feeding practices are beneficial for the child... - Weight status in young girls and the onset of pubertyJoyce M Lee
University of Michigan, 300 NIB, Room 6E05, Campus Box 0456, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0456, USA
Pediatrics 119:e624-30. 2007..We sought to examine the association between weight status in early childhood and onset of puberty... - Adolescent obesity and maternal and paternal sensitivity and monitoringR Neal Davis
Division of General Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 6:e457-63. 2011..To determine if adolescent obesity is associated with parenting characterized by lower sensitivity and lower monitoring of adolescent activities... - Maternal styles of talking about child feeding across sociodemographic groupsMegan H Pesch
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 111:1861-7. 2011..001) and child weight status (P<0.05). More than half (60%) of children of mothers in the Conflicted Control cluster were obese. Maternal styles of talking about feeding are associated with maternal and child characteristics... - Body mass index and timing of pubertal initiation in boysJoyce M Lee
Division of Pediatric Endocrinology, Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Michigan, 300 NIB, Room 6E08, Campus Box 5456, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5456, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:139-44. 2010..To examine the association between body mass index (BMI [calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared]) and timing of pubertal onset in a population-based sample of US boys... - Short stature in a population-based cohort: social, emotional, and behavioral functioningJoyce M Lee
Pediatric Endocrinology, Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5456, USA
Pediatrics 124:903-10. 2009..The goal was to determine whether there were significant differences between children of normative versus short stature in behavioral functioning and peer relationships, according to teacher and child reports... - Beliefs about the role of parenting in feeding and childhood obesity among mothers of lower socioeconomic statusAlison Kalinowski
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 5406, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 44:432-7. 2012..To examine beliefs about the role of parenting in feeding and childhood obesity among mothers of lower socioeconomic status... - The figure rating scale as an index of weight status of women on videotapeTiffany M Cardinal
Center for Human Growth and Development, 300 North Ingalls Building, 10th Floor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0406, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 14:2132-5. 2006..To determine whether Stunkard's Figure Rating Scale (FRS) is a valid and reliable index of weight status when an unbiased observer assigns the figure ratings of adult women viewed on videotape... - Maternal perspectives on growth and nutrition counseling provided at preschool well-child visitsSusan J Woolford
Divisionsof General Pediatrics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 0456, USA
J Natl Med Assoc 99:153-8. 2007..Objective: To explore what mothers of preschoolers recall and understand about growth assessment and nutrition anticipatory guidance provided at their child's most recent well-child visit... - Emotion regulation in context: the jealousy complex between young siblings and its relations with child and family characteristicsBrenda L Volling
Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 48109 1109, USA
Child Dev 73:581-600. 2002..Results are discussed with respect to the need for future research to consider social relationships as developmental contexts for young children's emotion regulation... - Biobehavioral indices of emotion regulation relate to school attitudes, motivation, and behavior problems in a low-income preschool sampleAlison L Miller
Department of Health Behavior and Health Education, University of Michigan School of Public Health, 1420 Washington Heights, SPHII, Room M5533, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 2029, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1094:325-9. 2006..Teachers rated child motivation, persistence/attention, learning attitudes, and internalizing/externalizing symptoms. Results reveal associations between biobehavioral markers of regulatory capacity and early school adjustment... - Parenting styles and overweight status in first gradeKyung E Rhee
Department of Pediatrics, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 117:2047-54. 2006..The goal was to determine the relationship between the 4 parenting styles (authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful) and overweight status in first grade... - I'll have what she's having: the impact of model characteristics on children's food choicesBrandy N Frazier
Department of Psychology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA
Dev Sci 15:87-98. 2012..This work connects with previous research on children's understanding of social categories and also has important practical implications for how characteristics of a food-eating model can affect children's willingness to try new foods... - Enhancing self-regulation as a strategy for obesity prevention in Head Start preschoolers: the growing healthy studyAlison L Miller
Center for Human Growth and Development, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
BMC Public Health 12:1040. 2012..abstract:.. - Overweight and psychiatric illness in childrenJulie C Lumeng
South Med J 101:347-8. 2008
Research Grants
- Language/theory/food conception and eating behaviorJULIE LUMENG; Fiscal Year: 2006..Results of the proposed experiments will lead to the development of an intervention program to alter children's food preferences and eating behavior that will be tested in subsequent studies. ..
- Processes in cognitive development as targets for eating behavior interventionsJULIE LUMENG; Fiscal Year: 2007..In the context of the growing childhood obesity epidemic, improved nutrition education interventions for young children are needed. ..
- Self-Regulation as a Biological Mechanism for Excess Weight Gain in ToddlersAlison L Miller; Fiscal Year: 2010..The results could therefore be broadly applicable to more effective prevention of other unhealthy behaviors such as substance abuse. ..