Students

Project: “Parent Feeding Practices and Child Appetitive Traits: Effects on Fruit & Vegetable Intake and BMI”

Research Focus: Investigating how behavioral predictors and innate appetitive traits influence child nutrition and diet outcomes, with the goal of fostering healthy early relationships with food to prevent the onset of eating disorders in adolescence.

• Dietetics Intern: Manipal Hospital, Bangalore, India
• Research Intern: St Johns Research Institue, Bangalore, India

Hometown: Bangalore, India

Future Goals: I plan to continue working in the field of child behavioral nutrition, with a focus on early intervention. My goal is to develop preventive strategies that reduce the risk of disordered eating during adolescence by supporting healthy eating behaviors in childhood.

Fun Fact: I write songs, sing, drink way too much coffee and never miss a chance to crack a joke.