Penn State's Children's Eating And Behavior Lab

Hanging out in Atlanta, meeting colleagues and talking about Nutritional Science during Obesity Week!

#TOS2025 #Nutrition #Science #Community

Image promoting Trunk Or Treat event at the State College YMCA from 5-7.

Our lab will be doing some Outreach tonight at the local YMCA Trunk R Treat Event!

NOURISH includes structural MRI scans to track how diet may affect brain structure—monitoring total brain & hippocampal volume, & white matter changes over time, in addition to brain infarcts. Nutrition science can inform how these neuroimaging markers change over time.

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Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity | Social Science Research Institute The faster a child takes bites during a meal or snack, the greater risk they have for developing obesity, according to researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Sciences. But research…

A pilot study recently published by Kathleen Keller, SSRI cofund & Helen A. Guthrie Chair of nutritional sciences at Penn State by In Frontiers in Nutrition demonstrated that the AI system is currently about 70% as successful as human bite counters. ➡️

We are so proud to see Yashaswini Bhat's, work to be picked up by the National Media! She was an incredibly productive member of our lab over the past few years and we are happy to see her efforts recognized.

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You can check out her profile below!

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Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity | Penn State University The speed at which children take bites is associated with their risk of obesity. Researchers at Penn State are developing a new artificial intelligence model to measure children’s bite rates. They des...

Some of the work of our Graduate Student, Yashaswini Bhat as we try to merge cutting edge technology with foundational food science!

#Nutrition #Science #AI

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Young girls may be less responsive to food fullness cues than young boys | Penn State University Young boys and girls eat different amounts if provided with fruit before a meal, with girls consuming more, according to a new study led by researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Scie...

Some of our work being broadcasted by Penn State!

Easier to access than some of our official papers, so feel free to share with non-science folk!

#Nutrition #Fullness #Satiety #Behavior #Science

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Counting bites with AI might one day help prevent childhood obesity | Penn State University The speed at which children take bites is associated with their risk of obesity. Researchers at Penn State are developing a new artificial intelligence model to measure children’s bite rates. They des...

Some of the work of our Graduate Student, Yashaswini Bhat as we try to merge cutting edge technology with foundational food science!

#Nutrition #Science #AI

🍎📃🧪

www.psu.edu/news/health-...

@fluxsociety.bsky.social I’m hiring a postdoc and PhD student. I wasn’t able to make it to the conference this year 😭 but if you’re interested in brain-food-weight-neurocog please reach out to me for more info!! #flux2025

Frontiers | ByteTrack: A Deep Learning Approach for Bite Count and Bite Rate Detection Using Meal Videos In Children Assessing eating behaviors at a meal (e.g., eating rate) provides insight on risk for overconsumption and obesity. Traditional sensor-based methods often int...

This was an outstanding contribution by our doctoral student (recently graduated Yashaswini Bhat). Check out this deep learning model Yashu developed to automatically code eating behaviors in children. Potential intervention and cost saving invention.

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#Nutrition #Science #DeepLearning #AI

ASN Science Policy Fellowship - American Society for Nutrition Gain an enhanced perspective on public policy issues related to nutrition and build skills to become a well-informed advocate for nutrition research and policy.

Apply today! Expand your perspective on public policy issues related to nutrition and health through ASN's 2026 Science Policy Fellowship.

Applications due December 19. Learn more: nutrition.org/public-affai...

Children’s satiety responsiveness moderates the association between food reinforcement and eating in the absence of hunger The reinforcing value of food, a measure of motivation to obtain food, is associated with obesity in children. However, the extent to which food reinf…

Another great article form the SSIB Special Issue: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Children who are more motivated by food (aka high food reinforcement) tend to eat more during meals and snacks—even when they’re not hungry.

Young girls may be less responsive to food fullness cues than young boys | Penn State University Young boys and girls eat different amounts if provided with fruit before a meal, with girls consuming more, according to a new study led by researchers in the Penn State Department of Nutritional Scie...

Some of our work being broadcasted by Penn State!

Easier to access than some of our official papers, so feel free to share with non-science folk!

#Nutrition #Fullness #Satiety #Behavior #Science

🍎📃🧪

Frontiers | ByteTrack: A Deep Learning Approach for Bite Count and Bite Rate Detection Using Meal Videos In Children Assessing eating behaviors at a meal (e.g., eating rate) provides insight on risk for overconsumption and obesity. Traditional sensor-based methods often int...

This was an outstanding contribution by our doctoral student (recently graduated Yashaswini Bhat). Check out this deep learning model Yashu developed to automatically code eating behaviors in children. Potential intervention and cost saving invention.

🍎📃🧪

#Nutrition #Science #DeepLearning #AI