Lucia L. Kaiser

  • Specialist in Cooperative Extension, Department of Nutrition
  • Vice Chair

3207 Meyer

(530) 754-9063

llkaiser@ucdavis.edu

Email

Education

  • 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

Research Interests

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.

Publications

  • 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.