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Lucia L. Kaiser

Lucia L. Kaiser

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

3207 Meyer

(530) 754-9063

llkaiser@ucdavis.edu

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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

Dr. Kaiser's outreach activities include developing nutrition education materials (fact sheets and curricula) for use through the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP) and other community programs; and presenting nutrition topics at workshops and conferences throughout the state. 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. Dr. Kaiser writes a blog called "Maternal and Infant Nutrition Briefs" and maintains the UC Cooperative Extension Community Nutrition website, which provides research updates, nutrition education resources, and evaluation tools that can help those working in the community to support Americans in adopting healthy lifestyles and improving the food environment.

Selected 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.