Kathryn Walton

Kathryn Walton is a Registered Dietitian and Assistant Professor of Applied Nutrition at the University of Guelph. Dr. Walton’s research focuses on developing evidence-based best practices for feeding children to support their healthy growth and development. Her work examines children’s eating behaviours, diet quality, and body composition, as well as food parenting and parent-child interactions during mealtimes. She also considers how aspects of the home environment, such as family stress, may impact children’s health. Dr. Walton is particularly interested in supporting families with children at high risk of eating difficulties, including children born preterm and with neurodevelopmental disorders.

Dr. Walton is also the Associate Director of the Guelph Family Health Study, a family-based cohort study designed to identify early-life risk factors of chronic disease and test strategies to support healthy behaviours among children and their families.