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| Amanda L ThompsonSummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Pressuring and restrictive feeding styles influence infant feeding and size among a low-income African-American sampleAmanda L Thompson
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 21:562-71. 2013..Parental feeding styles and the attitudes and behaviors that characterize parental approaches to maintaining or modifying children's eating behavior are an important behavioral component shaping early obesity risk...
Maternal characteristics and perception of temperament associated with infant TV exposureAmanda L Thompson
Carolina Population Center, 123 W Franklin St, CB 8120, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Pediatrics 131:e390-7. 2013..This study examines the development of television (TV) behaviors across the first 18 months of life and identifies maternal and infant predictors of infant TV exposure...
Developmental origins of obesity: early feeding environments, infant growth, and the intestinal microbiomeAmanda L Thompson
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Am J Hum Biol 24:350-60. 2012..This article argues that these biological mechanisms interact with the social and behavioral context of infant feeding to create differential vulnerability to later obesity...
Development and validation of the Infant Feeding Style QuestionnaireAmanda L Thompson
Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27516, USA
Appetite 53:210-21. 2009....
Measurement of testosterone in infant fecal samplesAmanda L Thompson
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
Am J Hum Biol 23:820-2. 2011..This study reports the validation of a noninvasive method for repeated assessment of testosterone from infant fecal samples...
Sex differences in the relationships among weight gain, subcutaneous skinfold tissue and saltatory length growth spurts in infancyMichelle Lampl
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Pediatr Res 58:1238-42. 2005..These data generate the hypothesis that a common growth signal cascade couples growth in weight and length/height with a time delay due to sex-specific biology, reflected in a s.c. fat fold interface...
Growth chart curves do not describe individual growth biologyMichelle Lampl
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA
Am J Hum Biol 19:643-53. 2007..Further characterization of individual growth patterns will contribute to increased understanding of both individual growth biology and the nature of adaptability...
Non-invasive methods for estradiol recovery from infant fecal samplesAmanda L Thompson
Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Front Physiol 1:148. 2010....
Early determinants of non-exclusive breastfeeding among Guatemalan infantsDaniel W Sellen
Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Adv Exp Med Biol 554:299-301. 2004
