Programme

Thursday 21 March 2013, Gateway Building

8:45	Registration, coffee and welcome
9:30	Professor Louise Richardson – Opening address: Welcome from St Andrews University
9:40	Professor Marion Hetherington – Introduction to VIVA: V is for vegetable: applying learning theory to liking and intake of vegetables
10.10	Professor Leann Birch – KEYNOTE – The importance of early food learning for the development of healthy food preferences & preventing obesity
10.50	Coffee break and posters
11.30	Dr Sophie Nicklaus – Eating a variety of vegetables: the importance of feeding practices at weaning and onwards
12.00	Dr Lucy Cooke – Using rewards to facilitate children’s acceptance of vegetables
12.30	Professor Kees de Graaf – Mum, may I have Brussels sprouts again?
1.00	Lunch break and networking
2.00	Small Group workshops (5) to discuss specific questions on the role of: early feeding, vegetable weaning foods, parents and food learning in developing eating habits; and on tackling low vegetable intake at population level
3.30	Coffee break and posters
4.15	Plenary for feedback from facilitators of group discussions
4.45	Professor Harriet Oster – Facial expression as a window on food and flavour preferences and aversions in infants and children
5.15	Concluding remarks from day 1
5.30	Close
7.30	VIVA Congress drinks and dinner

9:00	Introductions to the day’s agenda
9:05	Professor John Reilly – KEYNOTE – Early origins of childhood obesity
9:45	Dr Mary Fewtrell – Infant feeding and later risk of obesity
10:15	Professor Mary Rudolf – Contributing to healthy eating habits in the youngest – HENRY’s experience
10:45	Coffee break and posters
11:30	Dr Sylvie Issanchou – Are maternal feeding practices associated with children’s eating difficulties? Comparing reported and observed behaviours
12:00	Professor Charlotte Wright – Child and maternal determinants of infant eating behaviour
12:30	Lunch break and networking
1:30	Panel discussion – How can we be more effective in promoting healthy eating habits to prevent obesity?
2:30	Professor Jaap Seidell – Implementation of new insights into feeding
2:50	Professor Marion Hetherington – Concluding remarks
3:00	Close