RDN | Food Enthusiast | Assistant Professor | Researching children’s eating behaviors | "In my heart I'm a vegan, but my mouth lacks discipline." -Jonathan Ames
Joined May 2019
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Findings suggest this approach to making healthy choices easier might be equally fruitful in single and multi-resident households and in families with children.
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Former postdoc and current Assistant Professor @RutgersU @MJ_Ferrante led a paper exploring effects of our optimal defaults grocery shopping intervention by household type. tinyurl.com/4jw4t7h8
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
This AM we're talking an exciting partnership between @UBuffalo and @Instacart. They need YOU to help with a study underway.
Here's a preview 🛒
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Check out this sneak peek into our new Family Grocery Study. Think you might like to participate? More info is at ubhablab.weebly.com/particip…. All participating families get packets of kid-approved, healthy recipes!
This AM we're talking an exciting partnership between @UBuffalo and @Instacart. They need YOU to help with a study underway.
Here's a preview 🛒
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
CAE here we come! Come check out the work of HABLAB seniors Opeyemi and Olivia! @Jacobs_Med_UB @CSTEP_UB @MJ_Ferrante
Join us today as we celebrate the incredible work of #UBuffalo students at the Celebration of Academic Excellence! 🤘 For more info and times ▶️ bit.ly/40G76fl
ALT People mill about a large room with research posters set up. There are blue and white balloons, blue curtains.
So glad I got to be a part of this amazing panel of researchers!
Happy to have been a collaborator on this project and coauthor on this newly published paper from @ubhablab led by @SAnzmanFrasca - great work team!
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2) @SAnzmanFrasca led a paper presenting primary outcomes from our @UBuffaloCTSI pilot RCT using optimal defaults to promote healthier grocery purchases among participants at risk for or diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes. doi.org/10.1002/oby.23588
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
HABLAB is in San Diego having a great time at #ow2022! Check out our posters today – #455, 487, 488, & virtual poster 036. Topics are food photography in restaurants, a defaults grocery shopping intervention, a winter hiking intervention, and food parenting in restaurants.
I loved working on this project with this team! So happy it’s in print!
@laura_bellows @CEL_CUAnschutz @eetyourheartout @MJ_Ferrante @SJ_Hobbs
The SPORKS for Kids: Integrating movement into nutrition education
jneb.org/article/S1499-4046(…
Final paper from my dissertation is now the newest line on my CV! Thanks to an amazing mentoring team for getting this to the finish line with me! @laura_bellows @CEL_CUAnschutz
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Agree @CDCgov should say more about kids. Families are feeling confused and ignored. And as many restrictions are loosening for adults, @NYGovCuomo just released more stringent guidelines for kids in childcare and camp settings. This doesn’t seem to be data driven or fair to kids
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Want a season-friendly activity to keep your child mentally and physically busy while they’re home for Spring break? Check out our most recent Facebook post to learn more at facebook.com/ubhablab/, or visit theimaginationtree.com/disco… for further details!
As an RDN and researcher I’ve always wanted to publish something in JAND - stoked that it got to be one of my dissertation papers!
Thank you to an amazing mentoring team and the CSU @AspenGrille!
@laura_bellows @CEL_CUAnschutz
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
New publication alert! @MJ_Ferrante led this paper on families’ food acquisition and daily life during COVID-19: mdpi.com/1660-4601/18/4…
For more new HABLAB pubs, check out ubhablab.weebly.com/news.htm…
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
@KameronModing; @MJ_Ferrante; @CEL_CUAnschutz; @TasteProf Are we always buying what we think we are when we purchase infant/toddler vegetables?
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
A disconnect between food packages & their ingredients list is profiled in this month's @JNEBOnline. Find out more about this disconnect: bit.ly/2LyHGQs
#nutrition #research #foodlabels #foodlabeling
@SNEBonline @Els_Nutrition
ALT A mother and father spoon-feed their infant child.
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
Baby food packaging labels leave parents confused, finds fruit and veg investigation packaginginsights.com/news/b…
Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
New Paper on Front-of-Package Product Names and Ingredient Lists of vegetable containing Infant and Toddler Foods. @CEL_CUAnschutz @MJ_Ferrante @KameronModing @ABakk @laura_bellows @SensoryPSU #ITF #sensorynutrition #veggies
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Mackenzie Ferrante, PhD, RDN retweeted
@laura_bellows; @MJ_Ferrante; @CEL_CUAnschutz How can nutrition educators maintain behavior change over time? jneb.org/current
