Alyssa Button @AButtonPhD
Assistant Professor passionate about pediatric health behavior. GO BILLS! Joined September 2022-
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"Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment," authored by Pennington Biomedical’s Pediatric Obesity and Health Behavior Laboratory’s Dr. Amanda Staiano and Dr. Alyssa Button, was the most downloaded paper in 2024 from Childhood Obesity, a…
A meta-meta-analysis shows e- & m-Health interventions improve #physicalactivity, sedentary behavior, #diet, bodyweight & #sleep. These scalable interventions offer significant benefits across diverse populations, enhancing public health. nature.com/articles/s4174…
My 103 y.o. Great grandmother and her sister were interviewed by the news 💗💗 wonderful, wonderful women! whec.com/top-news/103-a…
Say goodbye to harmful messages about body weight and shape! Let's focus on overall well-being for our children's health. Check out our new #HealthyLiving article for tips on challenging weight stigma and promoting healthy habits. ow.ly/l43G50R4tR9 #EndWeightStigma
Happy #TTBCIFeature day! Today's feature found that adolescents with lower adherence to U.S. dietary guidelines and greater cardiometabolic risk and anthropometry measurements at baseline continued this trajectory across 2 years: sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @AButtonPhD @amandastaiano
Making Healthy Snacks for Teens and Kids | SBM - Society of Behavioral Medicine sbm.org/healthy-living… via @BehavioralMed
The @BehavioralMed Annual Meeting is next week! Come mingle w/ EBBM at the annual networking event! ☕️Light refreshments will be served! 🏆Award winners announced 📢 🔍Learn about the Scavenger Hunt! 🤝Meet the incoming chair! 🎟️Enter a raffle & maybe win a prize! #SBM2024
🖥️ Remote monitoring of BMI using measurements provided by a child’s parent during a telemedicine visit may be a viable strategy for treating children with #obesity. Learn more 👇 @amandastaiano @AButtonPhD @DrSteveCook @PBRCNews healio.com/news/endocrino…
Happy #TTBCIFeature Tuesday! ❄️ This week's feature found that parents, but not their children, demonstrate greater delay discounting with resource scarcity. Check it out here: link.springer.com/article/10.118… @AButtonPhD
Poor Diet Quality During Adolescence is Linked to Serious Health Risks: Research published in the Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior closely measured cardiometabolic risk factors over two years pbrc.edu/news/media/202… #ScholarshipFirst #LSUResearch #PBRC
Closing the Gap Between Evidence and Practice for Childhood Obesity Treatment, published in @ChildObesity_jn Link to pub: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ch…
#LSU Pennington Biomedical Research Center has received a $13.8 million grant to help fight childhood obesity among minorities and those in rural communities. Associate Professor Amanda Staiano said the grant will allow them to find the best approach to deliver their 26-hour…
**NEW POSTDOC OPENING**👇 Come for a 2-4y postdoc in maternal health! lsu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/LSU/job/…
Meet @DrDaniArigo one of the presenters for our upcoming webinar: Operationalizing and Evaluating Behavioral Theories, Nov 30 at 1pm ET
ObesityWeek 2023 #OW2023
Thanks to @amandastaiano, @PBRCNews & the POHB lab for making me feel supported and appreciated during #PostdocAppreciationWeek and every week!
Join NOPREN on 9/27 @ 12pm ET for the Pediatric Obesity Health Services Research Work Group meeting! Jonathan Meisel, Maia Routly, Traci Williams & Stephanie Walsh will discuss Strong4Life Clinic: treating children & adolescents with obesity. Learn more: bit.ly/3PFjHgv
Check out this week's #TTBCIFeature, which validated remote measurements of weight and motor skills in children ages 3-4 compared to in-person measurements. This work could potentially offer a solution to barriers in research and access to care: frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…
We are excited to announce that our website has launched! Check it out today at sunrise-us.org/home

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