ReviewPreventive medicine2016
Food reinforcement during infancy.
Review in Preventive medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.
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12 citing papers in PubMed.
- Reducing relative food reinforcement of infants using a music enrichment program: a randomized, controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2022Trial
- Early Reward Learning and the Origins of Obesity: Food, Non-Food Reward, and Developing Self-Regulation.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Protocol for the infant growth and development (iGrowUp) study: the role of food and non-food self-regulation in children's obesity-related risk.BMC public health · 2025Article
- The Regulation of Energy Intake in Infancy: A Narrative Review.Current obesity reports · 2025Review
- Reinforcing value of food, enriched home environment, and changes in percent overweight in children.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2023Article
- The Effect of Financial Scarcity on Reinforcer Pathology: A Dyadic Developmental Examination.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- The enriched home environment and dietary intake are related to percent overBMI in children.Preventive medicine reports · 2021Article
- Infants with big appetites: The role of a nonfood environment on infant appetitive traits linked to obesity.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2020Article
- Sucking behavior in typical and challenging feedings in association with weight gain from birth to 4 Months in full-term infants.Appetite · 2020Article
- Editorial: 3rd Special Issue on behavior change, health, and health disparities.Preventive medicine · 2016Article
- Choice is relative: Reinforcing value of food and activity in obesity treatment.The American psychologistReview
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Abstract
The motivation to eat, as operationalized by measuring how hard someone will work for food, is cross-sectionally and prospectively related to obesity. Persons high in food reinforcement consume more calories, and energy intake mediates the relationship between food reinforcement and obesity. Research has shown avid sucking for milk in early infancy predicts later adiposity, and the relationship between food reinforcement and excess body weight has been observed in infants as young as 9months of age. New methodological developments in studying food reinforcement in infants and young children provide the first opportunity to study the origin of food reinforcement. This review seeks to provide background on the measurement of food reinforcement, and to present, for the first time, prenatal and postnatal predictors of infant food reinforcement. Lastly, potential mechanisms for an increasing trajectory of food reinforcement throughout development are proposed.
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