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Hollie Raynor, PhD, RD, is an assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Food and Nutrition from San Diego State University, her master’s degree in Public Health Nutrition from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville, and her PhD in clinical psychology from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She finished an AP4 program to become registered dietitian eligible at the University of Tennessee, and completed her clinical psychology internship in Behavioral Medicine at Brown University. Prior to becoming a faculty member at Brown, she did her postdoctoral training at Brown in the Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center.
Dr. Raynor’s research interests are in combining her nutrition and psychology training, by investigating eating regulation, specifically factors that affect satiation, and behavioral interventions for obesity. She is interested in eating regulation in both adults and children, and in examining factors that affect choices in eating behavior. Her specific areas of interest have involved examining dietary variety, portion size, and the reinforcing value of food on food intake. She is a co-investigator of three NIH funded grants, two of which are focusing on long-term maintenance of behaviors important for weight loss and weight loss maintenance, while the third grant examines changes that occur in the reinforcing value of high- and low-fat foods and how these changes are associated with weight loss during obesity treatment. She also is the primary investigator for two funded studies, one funded by NIH and the other funded by ADA, examining pediatric obesity treatment in young children (ages 4 to 8 years). Most recently, she also has been awarded a NIH funded grant investigating limiting dietary variety during adult obesity treatment, in which she is the primary investigator. Recent publications Raynor, H. A., & Wing, R. R. (2006). Limiting variety in snacks across days on food liking and intake. Appetite, 46, 168-176. Raynor, H. A., Niemeier, H. N., & Wing, R. R. (2006). Effect of limiting snack food variety on long-term sensory-specific satiety and monotony during obesity treatment. Eating Behaviors, 7, 1-14. Stein, R. I., Epstein, L. H., Raynor, H. A., Kilanowski, C. K., & Paluch, R. A. (2005). The influence of parenting change on pediatric weight control. Obesity Research, 13, 1749-1755. Raynor, H. A., Wing, R. R., Jeffery, R. W., Phelan, S., & Hill, J. O. (2005). Amount of food group variety consumed in the diet and long-term weight loss maintenance. Obesity Research, 13, 883-890. Epstein, L. H., Roemmich, J. N., Paluch, R. A., & Raynor, H. A. (2005). Influence of changes in sedentary behavior on energy and macronutrient intake in youth. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 81, 361-366. Epstein, L. H., Roemmich, J. H., Paluch, R. A. & Raynor, H. A. (2005). Physical activity as a substitute for sedentary behavior in youth. Annals of Behavioral Medicine, 29, 200-209. Raynor, H. A., Polley, B. A., Wing, R. R., & Jeffery R. W. (2004). Is dietary fat intake related to liking for or household availability of high- and low-fat foods? Obesity Research, 12, 816-823. Raynor, H. A., Jeffery, R. W., Tate, D. F, & Wing, R. R. (2004). The relationship between changes in food group variety, dietary intake, and weight during obesity treatment. International Journal of Obesity, 28, 813-820. Epstein, L. H., Paluch, R. A., Kilanowski, C. K., & Raynor, H. A. (2004). The effect of reinforcement or stimulus control to reduce sedentary behavior in the treatment of pediatric obesity. Health Psychology, 23, 371-380. Raynor, H. A. & Epstein, L. H. (2003). The relative-reinforcing value of food under differing levels of food deprivation and restriction. Appetite, 40, 15-24.
Selected Research Project
Changing Eating Behaviors in Young Children: Should Healthy Foods be Increased or Unhealthy Foods Decreased?
Hollie Raynor (PI), Rena Wing (Co-I), Elissa Jelalian (Co-I) New programs are needed to treat young children who are overweight or at risk for becoming overweight. It is recommended that such programs be offered in primary care settings, focus on young children, involve the parent so they can assist the child in making changes, and target two or three very specific eating behaviors. We propose to develop and test a program meeting these recommendations. We will also compare two different approaches for selecting the specific eating behaviors--either decreasing intake of unhealthy foods or increasing intake of healthy foods. Although most weight loss programs focus on decreasing unhealthy foods, increasing healthy foods may be an important alternative approach in young children who are developing their food preferences. Key measures will be changes in children's body mass index and their liking of healthy and unhealthy foods. This project is significant because it evaluates a program that is easily implemented in primary care settings, and tests the important question of whether it is preferable to increase healthy choices or decrease unhealthy choices. |
Hollie Raynor, Ph.D., R.D. Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior Brown Medical School hraynor@lifespan.org |