Your host Sarah Hippert explores the parent-child feeding relationship and its consequences for child weight status with guest Dr. Erin Hennessy, New Balance Fellow in Childhood Nutrition at the John Hancock Center for Physical Activity and Nutrition. With her help we'll take a look at the implications of parenting style, parent-feeding style, and feeding practices as they affect child eating behavior and child weight. We'll also consider the application of Erin’s research for childhood obesity policy interventions that are currently underway in Washington and throughout our nation.

Your host Mona Hdeib discusses the link between changes in eating behavior and patterns of eating due to and during times of stress, as well as how chronic stress may lead to obesity with guest Dr. Susan Roberts, scientist and professor of Nutrition as well as psychiatry at Tufts University, whose new book The “i” Diet looks at using a person’s neurobiology to control weight. She will help us discern through the scientific and popular culture information available on the topic of psychology of stress, through changes in brain chemistry, that lead to changes in how we eat during these times and how these stress-adaptation eating behaviors eventually lead to weight gain if not managed properly.

Your host Ashley Reynolds meets with the faculty leading one of Tufts' inaugural university-wide interdisciplinary seminars, "The Obesity Epidemic: Science and Food Economics."  They will discuss the process of developing the course and the variety of research topics students in the course are exploring. Faculty guests include:

-Dr. Susan Roberts, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
-Dr. Robin Kanarek, School of Arts and Sciences
-Dr. Emmanuel Pothos, School of Medicine
-Dr. Parke Wilde, Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy
-Dr. Sai Das, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging

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