UC Davis Nutrition Department Faculty

Community Nutrition Specialist
Department of Nutrition
Office: 3207 Meyer Hall
Phone: (530) 754-9063
e-mail: llkaiser@ucdavis.edu

B.S., Biology, College of William and Mary, 1974
M.S., Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 1981
Dietetic internship, Clinical Research Center, Stanford University Hospital, 1984
Ph.D., Nutrition, University of California, Davis, 1989

Developing nutrition education materials (fact sheets and curricula) for use through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and other community programs; publishing a bi-monthly newsletter, Maternal and Infant Nutrition Briefs; and presenting nutrition topics at workshops and conferences throughout the state. Dr. Kaiser also administers a USDA Economic Research Service RIDGE Program, a small grants program to examine the impact of food assistance on nutrition. Research interests include: examining the impact of acculturation and food security on the child-parent feeding relationship among Latinos, developing tools to evaluate nutrition education, and evaluating lifeskills education on transition from welfare to work.

Garcia S, Kaiser L, Dewey KG. Self-regulation of food intake among rural Mexican preschool children. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition 1990;44:371-380.

Garcia, S. E., Kaiser, L. L., & Dewey, K. G. (1990) The relationship of eating frequency and caloric density to energy intake among rural Mexican preschool children. Eur J Clin Nutr 44: 381-387.

Kaiser L, Dewey KG. Migration, cash-cropping, and subsistence agriculture: relationships to patterns of household food expenditures in rural Mexico. Social Science and Medicine 1991;33(10):1113-1126.

Tamura, T., & Kaiser, L. L. The absorption of pteroylpolyglutamate and intestinal pteroylpolygammaglutamyl hydrolase activity in zinc-deficient rats. J Nutr 1991;121: 1042-1046.

Kaiser L, Dewey KG. Household economic strategies and food expenditure patterns in rural Mexico: impact on nutritional status of preschool children. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 1991;25:125-145.

Kaiser L, Dewey KG. Food resource allocation, household economic strategies and intrahousehold dietary intake patterns in rural Mexico. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 1991;25:123-145.

Kaiser, L. L., & Dewey, K. G. Migration, cash cropping and subsistence agriculture: relationships to household food expenditures in rural Mexico. Soc Sci Med 1991;33: 1113-1126.

Kaiser, L. L., Martinez, N. A., Harwood, J. O., & Garcia, L. C. Child feeding strategies in low-income Latino households: focus group observations. J Am Diet Assoc 1999;99: 601-603.

Kaiser, L. L., Melgar-Quinonez, H. R., Lamp, C. L., Johns, M. C., & Harwood, J. O. Acculturation of Mexican-American mothers influences child feeding strategies. J Am Diet Assoc 2001;101: 542-547.

Murphy, S. P., Kaiser, L. L., Townsend, M. S., & Allen, L. H. Evaluation of validity of items for a food behavior checklist. J Am Diet Assoc 2001;101: 751-761.