I posted lots about the #appetitestudy conference today in Birmingham UK led by @profblissett.bsky.social.
Fab day. Lots of great learning about #eatingbehaviour #psychology #research. And importantly a great lunch and friendly crowd :) 🧪 I was going to collate my posts below but have no idea how!

My reflections on the #appetitestudy conference 🧪

- an amazing body of work looking at avid eating in littles from all sorts of angles that I don’t pretend to fully understand!

- great collaboration between different experts in different centres in the UK :)

Jackie Blissett presenting a slide entitled targets for intervention

Finally @profblissett.bsky.social wrapped up a great day of learning about the #appetitestudy.

Managing avid eating is important to parents as it is a major area of conflict for them.

Dr Helen Croker presenting a slide entitled behavioural targets

Next was Dr Helen Croker who had been tasked with translating the results of the other work packages in the #appetitestudy into an intervention.

Next at #appetitestudy conference was Dr Katie Edwards @katieedders.bsky.social presenting results of a lab based study. Invited 129 parent and child dyads to the lab to be observed

Prof Claire Farrow presented next at the #appetitestudy conference. 🧪. Parents use feeding practices that work in the immediacy but have negative effects longer term.

Used a variable-centred approach to compare maternal food approach traits with child food approach traits.

Eek my phone is running out of battery so I guess ill have to revert to taking paper notes #appetitestudy conference

Dr Alice Kininmonth, Leeds University, now presenting on Prospective and reciprocal associations between parent feeding practices and preschool children’s eating behaviour. #appetitestudy conference. 🧪 …

Prof Emma Haycraft (Loughborough University) now presenting about parents experiences and challenges of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour #appetitestudy 🧪#psychology #research

🧪 adding the science feed emoji. Posting today from conference in Birmingham Uk on the findings of the #appetitestudy funded by Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC).

Next up at the #appetitestudy conference is Dr Abigail Pickard of Edinburgh Uni and Aston Uni: identifying an avid eating profile in childhood: what does this behaviour look like ‘in the moment’?

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Dr Moritz Herle from KCl now talking about the development of appetite avidity and emotional eating 🧪 #appetitestudy

In the #appetitestudy they used prospective data from the #Geministudy. 2402 British twin pairs born 2007 collecting weight, height, diet and environment and eating disorder symptoms.

Next speaker at #appetitestudy conference - Prof Clare Llewellyn from UCL talking about Behavioural susceptibility theory of childhood obesity. 🧪