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Differences in attention to food and food intake between overweight/obese and normal-weight females under conditions of hunger and satiety.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, various attention-related tasks yielded various results, suggesting that they measure different underlying processes. Strikingly, overweight/obese individuals appear to automatically direct their attention to food-related stimuli, to a greater extent than normal-weight individuals, particularly when food-deprived. Speculatively, hungry overweight/obese individuals also appear to use cognitive strategies to reduce a maintained attentional bias for food stimuli, perhaps in an attempt to prevent disinhibited food intake. However, in order to draw firm conclusions, replication studies are needed. PMID: 19922...
Source: Appetite - November 13, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Nijs IM, Muris P, Euser AS, Franken IH Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

All I saw was the cake: Hunger effects on attentional capture by visual food cues.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
While effects of hunger on motivation and food reward value are well-established, far less is known about the effects of hunger on cognitive processes. Here, we deployed the emotional blink of attention paradigm to investigate the impact of visual food cues on attentional capture under conditions of hunger and satiety. Participants were asked to detect targets which appeared in a rapid visual stream after different types of task irrelevant distractors. We observed that food stimuli acquired increased power to capture attention and prevent target detection when participants were hungry. This occurred despite monetary in...
Source: Appetite - November 12, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Piech RM, Pastorino MT, Zald DH Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Eating Disturbances Among Adolescent Schoolgirls In Jordan.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Eating disturbances were prevalent among the present population sample. Participants have been more preoccupied with their body weight due to socio-cultural norms that are reinforced by media messages. Further research is needed to develop intervention programs to control eating disorders occurrence in Jordan. PMID: 19900499 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - November 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mousa TY, Al-Domi HA, Mashal RH, Jibril MA Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

A taste of the unfamiliar: understanding the meanings attached to food by international postgraduate students in England.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Using findings from semi-structured interviews with international postgraduate students in England, this paper explores the meanings attached to the food they eat in a new culture. Our study, using interviews, aimed to uncover student responses to both the food they eat whilst abroad and to the food they have left behind. Many students criticised local English food as bland, fattening, and unhealthy; nevertheless, most showed an openness to new foods, trying not only local food but also dishes prepared by their international friends, but this sat alongside a strong attachment to their home country dishes. Eating togeth...
Source: Appetite - November 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Brown L, Edwards J, Hartwell H Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Immediate Pleasures and Future Consequences: A Neuropsychological Study of Binge Eating and Obesity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Longitudinal data indicate that our capacity for adaptive self-regulation is a relatively stable predisposition that appears in childhood and predicts future life successes. In 2004, we published the first study demonstrating decision-making deficits in overweight/obese adult women. The present study is an extension of these findings. We assessed obese women with (n=65) and without (n=73) binge eating disorder (BED), and a group (n=71) of normal weight women, on two neuropsychological tests: the Iowa Gambling Task and a Delay Discounting measure. The BED and obese groups had worse performance scores on both tasks compa...
Source: Appetite - November 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Davis C, Patte K, Curtis C, Reid C Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Do maternal ratings of appetite in infants predict later Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire scores and body mass index?Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In a longitudinal birth cohort maternal ratings of children's appetites made at 6 weeks, 12 months and 5-6 years were correlated with one another and with subscales from the Child Eating Behaviour Questionnaire (CEBQ) at 5-6 years, and body mass index (BMI) at 6-8 years. Statistically significant correlations were found between the children's appetite ratings. Appetite ratings in infancy were also correlated with the CEBQ subscales scores at 5-6 years to a limited extent, but not with the BMI at 6-8 years. The appetite rating at 5-6 years and three of the CEBQ subscales were independently associated with BMI. Children ...
Source: Appetite - October 31, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Parkinson KN, Drewett RF, Couteur AS, Adamson AJ Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Parent Mealtime Actions that Mediate Associations between Children's Fussy-eating and their Weight and Diet.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study evaluated parent mealtime actions that mediate associations between children's fussy-eating and their weight and diet. Participants included 236 feeding-clinic children in three diagnostic groups: 50 with autism, 84 with other special needs, 102 without special needs. Children's weight was measured as body mass index percentile (BMI%), with only 26.4% of the present sample found to be underweight (BMI% less than 10). Parents reported children's diet variety as the number of 139 common foods accepted, children's FUSSINESS with the Child Eating Behavior Questionnaire, and their own use of four actions f...
Source: Appetite - October 31, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hendy HM, Williams KE, Riegel K, Paul C Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

IMPROVING The PROVISION Of MEALS IN HOSPITAL: THE PATIENTS' VIEWPOINT.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study examines the provision of hospital meals from the patients' viewpoint, with the aim of improving hospital food service. Patients were approached in early 2008 in a National Health Service (NHS) hospital in the South of England and invited to comment on the good and bad aspects of eating in hospital. Comments were collected in an abbreviated "key word" format which incurred the minimum of bias and allowed emergent themes to be analysed both quantitatively and qualitatively. Seven main themes emerged, of which "food" and "choice" were mentioned most frequently, but had a low ratio (1.8 and 1.7 respectively) of app...
Source: Appetite - October 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Johns N, Hartwell H, Morgan M Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Wholegrain vs. refined wheat bread and pasta - effect on postprandial glycemia, appetite, and subsequent ad libitum energy intake in young healthy adults.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, the results show that wholemeal breads increased satiety measures compared to their refined counterparts; however no significant effect on subsequent EI was observed. PMID: 19837118 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - October 14, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kristensen M, Jensen MG, Riboldi G, Petronio M, Bügel S, Toubro S, Tetens I, Astrup A Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Does having a drink help you think? 6-7 year old children show improvements in cognitive performance from baseline to test after having a drink of water.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We examined whether drinking water improves performance from baseline to test in 23 6-7 year old children. There were significant interactions between time of test and water group (water/no water), with improvements in the water group on thirst and happiness ratings, visual attention and visual search, but not visual memory or visuomotor performance. These results indicate that even under conditions of mild dehydration, not as a result of exercise, intentional water deprivation or heat exposure, children's cognitive performance can be improved by having a drink of water. PMID: 19835921 [PubMed - as supplied by publishe...
Source: Appetite - October 12, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Edmonds CJ, Jeffes B Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Food-related lifestyles and their association to obesity in five European countries.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study has identified specific FRL dimensions as potential predictors of obesity. The resulting consumers' profiling can be used for targeted interventions for weight management in Europe. PMID: 19835922 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - October 12, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Perez-Cueto FJ, Verbeke W, Barcellos MD, Kehagia O, Chryssochoidis G, Scholderer J, Grunert KG Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Food choice motives and bread liking of consumers embracing hedonistic and traditional values.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study addresses the effect of personal values on consumers' food choice motives and on the liking of bread. A total of 224 consumers participated in the study in three groups: traditional and hedonistic consumers, who presented opposite value types according to the Schwartz value theory, and a control group. Three different rye breads were evaluated for liking and their sensory profiles were determined. The consumer groups' values, food choice motives measured with the Food Choice Questionnaire and a Concern scale, and liking of the breads differed significantly according to the analysis of variance and a partial leas...
Source: Appetite - October 12, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Pohjanheimo T, Paasovaara R, Luomala H, Sandell M Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Predicting Food Hygiene: An Investigation of Social Factors and Past Behaviour in an extended model of the Health Action Process Approach.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study aimed to bolster the lack of studies using the HAPA to model food safety behaviour. This study also aimed to include additional variables into HAPA to increase the amount of predicted variance in intention and behaviour. PMID: 19815040 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - October 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Chow S, Mullan B Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Willingness to Accept and Purchase Genetically Modified Rice with High Folate Content in Shanxi Province, China.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Neural-Tube Defects (NTD) are considered to be the most common congenital malformations. As Shanxi Province, a poor region in the North of China, has one of the highest reported prevalence rates of NTD's in the world, folate fortification of rice is an excellent alternative to low intake of folate acid pills in this region. This paper investigates the relations between socio-demographic indicators, consumer characteristics (knowledge, consumer perceptions on benefits, risks, safety and price), willingness-to-accept and willingness-to-pay genetically modified (GM) rice. The consumer survey compromises 944 face-to-face i...
Source: Appetite - October 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: De Steur H, Gellynck X, Storozhenko S, Liqun G, Lambert W, Van Der Straeten D, Viaene J Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Improved appetite after multi-micronutrient supplementation for six months in hiv-infected south african children.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of the study was to assess the effect of multi-micronutrient supplementation on the appetite of HIV-infected children. HIV-infected children (6 to 24 months) who had previously been hospitalized were enrolled into a double-blind randomized trial, and given daily multi-micronutrient supplements or placebos for six months. Appetite tests were performed at enrolment and after three and six months. Appetite was measured as ad libitum intake of a commercial cereal test food served after an overnight fast according to standardized procedures. Body weights and total amount of test food eaten were measured. In total, 9...
Source: Appetite - October 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mda S, van Raaij JM, Macintyre UE, de Villiers FP, Kok FJ Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Negative mood increases selective attention to food cues and subjective appetite.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Following negative-reinforcement and affect-regulation models of dysfunctional appetitive motivation, this study examined the effect of negative mood on objective and subjective cognitive indices of motivation for food; i.e., attentional bias for food cues and self-reported hunger/urge to eat, respectively. The study extended previous research on the effect of mood on food motivation by using (i) an experimental mood manipulation, (ii) an established index of attentional bias from the visual probe task and (iii) pictorial food cues, which have greater ecological validity than word stimuli. Young female adults (N=80) we...
Source: Appetite - October 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Hepworth R, Mogg K, Bradley CB Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Emotional and uncontrolled eating styles and chocolate chip cookie consumption: A controlled trial of the effects of positive mood enhancement.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study tested the effects of positive mood enhancement on chocolate chip cookie consumption in the context of emotional and uncontrolled eating styles. The relationship between emotional eating style and chocolate chip cookie intake was assumed to be mediated by uncontrolled eating style. Further, it was hypothesized that the effectiveness of the positive mood enhancement may be more salient among those who have effective control of their eating. In this experimental study, respondents (N=106, 70% women, aged 16 to 45 years old) were assigned by means of cluster randomization to the control or positive mood enhancem...
Source: Appetite - October 4, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Turner SA, Luszczynska A, Warner L, Schwarzer R Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Validation of a new hand-held electronic appetite rating system against the pen and paper method.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study describes the validation of a new electronic appetite rating system, and a statistical variance model for visual analogue scale (VAS) research. Thirty volunteers rated hunger, fullness, desire to eat, prospective intake, thirst and liking on 100mm paper VAS and on 70mm electronic VAS presented on a Dell(TM) Pocket PC, after consuming breakfast, in a repeated trial. The electronic method was comparable in relative accuracy and reproducibility to the paper method, with weak differences between tests (within-subject SD</=14mm). The data obtained were used to generate a model for VAS data variability. PMID: 1...
Source: Appetite - September 29, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Almiron-Roig E, Green H, Virgili R, Aeschlimann JM, Moser M, Erkner A Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Modification and validation of a Macronutrient Preference Checklist for use in North America.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
A Macronutrient Preference Checklist (MPC) is a simple tool that assesses momentary macronutrient and taste preferences. The purpose of this study was to modify and validate an existing European 32-item MPC and adapt it for use in North America. A total of 160 subjects completed questionnaires (demographic survey, appetite assessment, MPC, and MPC items rated on a 9-pt hedonic scale) on two occasions (Part 1). The MPC showed good internal consistency (Cronbach's alpha values of 0.76, 0.72, 0.64, and 0.57 for the four macronutrient categories of high protein, high carbohydrate, high fat, and low energy) and high test-re...
Source: Appetite - September 25, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Brisbois-Clarkson TD, McIsaac TM, Goonewardene LA, Wismer WV Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Non-Competitive Liking for Brands - No Blocking in Evaluative Conditioning.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the first experiment, we demonstrated evaluative conditioning using a novel across-modality procedure in which pictorial abstract brand logos acted as conditioned stimulus (CSs) and self-selected foods of different hedonic valence functioned as unconditioned stimuli (USs). We then investigated whether this form of learning of likes discriminates against redundant CSs using a blocking paradigm in the second experiment. The strength of evaluative conditioning accruing to the target CSs during compound training was unaffected by whether the other element of the compound was pretrained with a hedonic US. The observation...
Source: Appetite - September 25, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Laane K, Aru J, Dickinson A Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Decision-making impairments in women with Binge Eating Disorder.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Even though eating is frequently driven by overindulgence and reward rather than by energy balance, few studies so far have analyzed decision-making processes and disturbances in feedback processing in women with binge eating disorder (BED). In an experimental study, 17 women with BED (DSM-IV) and 18 overweight healthy controls (HC) were compared in the Game of Dice Task (GDT). This task assesses decision-making under risk with explicit rules for gains and losses. Additionally, differences in dispositional activation of the behavior inhibition and behavior approach system as well as cognitive flexibility were measured....
Source: Appetite - September 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Svaldi J, Brand M, Tuschen-Caffier B Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Variation in the gene TAS2R38 is associated with the eating behavior disinhibition in Old Order Amish women.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Insensitivity to the bitter-tasting compound 6-n-propylthiouracil (PROP) has been proposed as a marker for individual differences in taste perception that influence food preference and intake. The principal genetic determinants of phenotypic variation in PROP taste sensitivity are alleles of the TAS2R38 gene, which encodes a chemosensory receptor sensitive to thiourea compounds including PROP and phenylthiocarbamide. Members of the TAS2R family are expressed in the gustatory system, where they function as bitter taste receptors, and throughout the gut, where their physiological roles in prandial, gut-derived hormone re...
Source: Appetite - September 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Dotson CD, Shaw HL, Mitchell BD, Munger SD, Steinle NI Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

State Craving, Food Availability, and Reactivity to Preferred Snack Foods.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The startle response has been shown to be useful in studying reactivity to food cues. Following 6h of food deprivation and exposure to neutral and food cues, we examined the role of state craving combined with both a short and long delay of consumption on affect and startle reflex. Participants completed the PANAS, consumed a controlled early morning meal, and experienced 6h of food deprivation. They then reported back to the laboratory, completed a second baseline PANAS, and had their baseline eyeblink EMG startle responses to 100 dB(A) startle probe assessed. Prior to and following the presentation of cues, startle p...
Source: Appetite - September 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Rejeski WJ, Blumenthal TD, Miller GD, Davis C, Brown L Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Flavors prime processing of affectively congruent food words and non-food words.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this study was to explore the use of oral flavor stimuli in an implicit measure of attitudes; the affective priming paradigm. Unpleasant (cold instant coffee) and pleasant (strawberry lemonade) chemosensory flavor stimuli were used as primes in an affective cross-modal priming paradigm. Target stimuli were food words and non-food words, that were either affectively positive or negative, thus creating affectively congruent and incongruent prime-target pairs. We observed priming for congruent flavor-word pairs, i.e. if prime and target are both positive or both negative, this led to faster evaluation of the ta...
Source: Appetite - September 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Veldhuizen MG, Oosterhoff AF, Kroeze JH Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Determinants of food expenditure patterns among older consumers The Spanish case.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The continuously evolving lifestyles of European consumers are most noticeable in the elderly age segment, which, as a result, is drawing increasing attention from agrifood companies. The aim of this study is to perform an empirical analysis of the main determinants of food expenditure among elderly Spanish consumers, by comparing key variables reported in the literature, based on data from different years. The performed estimations yield a linear model with three statistically significant variables; type of household, level of education- a proxy measure for family income - and consumer's age. The results enable us to ...
Source: Appetite - September 15, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: García T, Grande I Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Understanding the Propensity of Consumers to Comply with Dietary Guidelines Directed at Heart Health.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of this paper is to explore the difficulty faced by consumers in complying with health-related dietary guidelines, focusing on those guidelines that consumers find it more/less difficult to meet and the factors driving the ability to make associated dietary changes. Participants reported self-assessed compliance with 12 dietary recommendations predominantly directed at reducing the risk of heart disease. The difficulty of complying with each of the dietary guidelines was measured using a Rasch model, while the determinants of ability to comply with the dietary recommendations as a whole were identified using re...
Source: Appetite - September 14, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Henson S, Blandon J, Cranfield J, Herath D Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

What constitutes food variety?: Stimulus specificity of food.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Variety is a major influence of energy intake, but it is not known how much foods have to vary to influence eating. Using a stimulus specificity habituation paradigm we assessed the influence of varying the texture and appearance of nutritionally identical foods on responding for food and energy intake, and whether sensitization, or an increase in responding prior to habituation, was related to the rate of habituation or recovery of responding. Children responded for elbow macaroni and cheese until they habituated, then were provided either more elbow macaroni and cheese, spiral macaroni and cheese, or chicken nuggets....
Source: Appetite - September 14, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Epstein LH, Robinson JL, Roemmich JN, Marusewski AL, Roba LG Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

When weight management lasts: Lower perceived rule complexity increases adherence.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Maintaining behavior change is one of the major challenges in weight management and long-term weight loss. We investigated the impact of the cognitive complexity of eating rules on adherence to weight management programs. We studied whether popular weight management programs can fail if participants find the rules too complicated from a cognitive perspective, meaning that individuals are not able to recall or process all required information for deciding what to eat. The impact on program adherence of participants' perceptions of eating rule complexity and other behavioral factors known to influence adherence (includin...
Source: Appetite - September 10, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mata J, Todd PM, Lippke S Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Young children's dietary habits and associations with the mothers' nutritional knowledge and attitudes.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The study investigates the dietary habits of Flemish preschoolers and associations of these habits with both sociodemographic characteristics and the mother's nutritional knowledge and attitudes. A sample of 862 parents of preschoolers from 56 schools completed a questionnaire including sociodemographic characteristics, a food-frequency questionnaire to assess children's dietary intake, and a nutritional knowledge-and-attitude questionnaire. Regression analysis showed a lower dietary adequacy in children of mothers with low and medium level of education, medium-ranked occupation, and lower levels of both nutritional kn...
Source: Appetite - September 10, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Vereecken C, Maes L Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Feeding Association Between the Nucleus of the Solitary Tract and the Ventral Tegmental Area.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Male Sprague-Dawley rats were fitted with two cannulae in the VTA and one cannula in the NTS for co-administration of the mu-opioid receptor agonist DAMGO in one site and the opioid antagonist naltrexone in the other. Injection of DAMGO into the VTA or the NTS stimulated feeding. The increase in food intake after DAMGO injection into the VTA was decreased following injection of naltrexone into the NTS. Furthermore, the increase in food intake after DAMGO injection into the NTS was decreased following injection of naltrexone into the VTA. These results suggest an opioid mediated feeding association between the VTA and N...
Source: Appetite - September 9, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kim EM, Quinn JG, Spanswick D, O'Hare E Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Relationship between parental feeding styles and eating behaviours of Dutch children aged 6-7.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The present study assessed the relationship between parental feeding styles and dietary intake behaviours of Dutch children aged 6-7. Associations between feeding styles and dietary behaviours of the parents were also examined. We translated the validated 'Parental Feeding Style Questionnaire' and evaluated its factor structure. A cross-sectional survey was completed by one of the parents of 135 children. Results indicated considerable similarity of factor structure, internal reliability and between-subscale correlations with the original instrument. The parental feeding dimensions of 'instrumental feeding' (i.e. using...
Source: Appetite - September 7, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Sleddens EF, Kremers SP, De Vries NK, Thijs C Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Attachment and weight and shape concerns in inpatient overweight youngsters.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: This study demonstrated an association between attachment and weight and shape concerns in inpatient obese youngsters. This suggests that relationships with attachment figures should be taken into account when these youngsters require treatment for eating disorder symptoms. PMID: 19744532 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - September 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Bosmans G, Goossens L, Braet C Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Visual exposure impacts on toddlers' willingness to taste fruit and vegetables.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study explores the effects of exposure to pictures of fruit and vegetables on young children's willingness to taste the foods. The parents of 20 toddlers aged 21-24 months were asked to read their child a picture book about four foods every day for two weeks. In a subsequent 'taste test' children displayed a neophobic pattern of behaviour towards foods to which they had not been exposed, but not towards exposed foods. Furthermore, while exposure served to decrease children's willingness to taste familiar vegetables, it increased their willingness to taste unfamiliar fruits. PMID: 19744533 [PubMed - as supplied by ...
Source: Appetite - September 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Houston-Price C, Butler L, Shiba P Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint among men with eating disorders.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We compared nutritional knowledge, eating attitudes and chronic dietary restraint scores among 17 men (10 with bulimia nervosa and 7 with anorexia nervosa) and 50 women (20 with bulimia nervosa and 30 with anorexia nervosa), who were consecutive patients at a major treatment center in Brazil. There were no differences in nutritional knowledge and concern with food between men and women. For both genders, chronic dietary restraint scores were higher among bulimics. Men with eating disorders had better eating attitudes scores than women. Anorexic men tended to have worse eating attitudes scores than bulimic men, while th...
Source: Appetite - September 1, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Scagliusi FB, Nakagawa KA, Campos RM, Kotait M, Fabbri A, Sato P, Cordás TA Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Association of overweight and obesity with interest in healthy eating, subjective health and perceived risk of chronic diseases in three European countries.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This paper analyses cultural differences in consumers' interest in healthy eating, subjective health and perceived risk of (chronic) diseases, and identifies the association between nutritional status (obesity and overweight) and the above mentioned variables as well as people's socio-demographic characteristics and health conditions that may influence food choice. Cross-sectional data were collected through a consumer survey (n=2,400) in 2008 with samples representative for age and region in France, Poland and Spain. Body-Mass-Index (BMI) was inversely associated with education and positively associated with age. Wome...
Source: Appetite - August 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Pieniak Z, Cueto FP, Verbeke W Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Cool and independent or foolish and undisciplined? Adolescents' prototypes of (un)healthy eaters and their association with eating behaviour.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
CONCLUSION: Adolescents hold relatively unfavourable social images of unhealthy eaters and relatively favourable images of healthy eaters. Only unhealthy eater prototypes are associated with actual food consumption, suggesting that addressing unhealthy eater prototypes may be an important and novel ingredient of interventions aimed at changing adolescents' unhealthy eating habits. PMID: 19712716 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - August 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Gerrits JH, de Ridder DT, de Wit JB, Kuijer RG Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Single-Trial Exercise-Induced Taste and Odor Aversion Learning in Humans.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the present study, it was investigated whether humans acquire an aversion for a flavor paired with a single bout of exercise, and if so, to what degree this effect requires the experience of gastrointestinal distress. To this end, a total of 58 participants either consumed or merely tasted a specifically flavored solution directly prior to a 30min running exercise. In both cases this led to a negative shift in subjective liking of the flavor (taste and odor) in comparison to the evaluation of another flavor not explicitly paired with exercise, indicative of a conditioned flavor aversion. The degree of subjectively e...
Source: Appetite - August 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Havermans RC, Salvy SJ, Jansen A Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Understanding college students' fruit consumption: integrating habit strength in the Theory of Planned Behaviour.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The additive and interactive effect of habit strength in the explanation of young adults' fruit consumption was studied within the context of the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB). Additionally, behavioural and control beliefs were modelled as predictors of profile membership based on current fruit consumption, motivation and habit strength towards fruit consumption. Cross-sectional data were available from undergraduate students (n=538; mean age=21.19; SD=2.57) who completed measures of fruit consumption, habit strength, TPB-concepts, and behavioural and control beliefs. Data were analyzed using stepwise regression an...
Source: Appetite - August 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: de Bruijn GJ Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

I eat healthfully but I am not a freak Consumers' everyday life perspective on healthful eating.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The gap between the awareness and understanding of healthful eating on the one hand and actual eating practices on the other has been addressed in several ways in the literature. In this paper, we consider it from an everyday-life perspective. Using discourse analysis, we analyse how Dutch consumers account for their everyday food choices. We show how Dutch consumers use three interpretative repertoires to confirm the importance of health, while not portraying themselves as too self- and health-conscious eaters. The first repertoire associates healthful eating with common knowledge and 'scripted' actions, thereby sugge...
Source: Appetite - August 17, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Bouwman LI, Te Molder H, Koelen MM, Woerkum CM Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

The basics of quantitative judgment. How to rate the strength of appetite for food and its sating.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The current strength of a person's appetite for food can be observed in any graded expression of the disposition to take a mouthful of food. For this quantitative judgment to measure an influence on hunger/satiety, however, the source of that influence has to be varied independently of other influences at the moment the rating is made. PMID: 19695297 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - August 16, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Booth DA Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Lines, dashed lines and "scale" ex-tricks. Objective measurements of appetite versus subjective tests of intake.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Investigators of appetite for food have been tricked into the twin illusions that ratings of the disposition to eat are subjective and amounts eaten at meals are objective. The reality is the opposite. Making a mark on a continuous or broken line specified by two levels of what the rater uses as a single concept is the objective performance of a quantitative judgment. In contrast, the amount of a test meal that a person eats is a completely subjective outcome accumulated from many choices of another mouthful, each subject to several rapidly changing influences. Hence, rather than intake at test meals providing any vali...
Source: Appetite - August 16, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Booth DA Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

How chocolate keeps you slim: The effect of food temptations on weight watching goal importance, intentions, and eating behavior.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the Western rich food environment, people are constantly confronted with palatable but unhealthy food products. For those who would like to watch their weight, the appeal of immediate satisfaction is in conflict with their long-term weight watching goal, constituting a classic self-control dilemma. The current studies were designed to test the effect of food temptations on self-regulation mechanisms. Hypotheses were based on counteractive control theory stating that temptations trigger goal-directed behavior, thereby forming an adaptive self-regulation mechanism. Two experimental studies showed that exposure to food...
Source: Appetite - August 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kroese FM, Evers C, De Ridder DT Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Maternal Psychosocial Predictors of Controlling Parental Feeding Styles and Practices.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The aim of the current study was to explore the relative contribution of parental depression, anxiety and stress and parenting satisfaction and efficacy to the explanation of variance in controlling parental feeding styles and practices. The sample comprised 124 mothers (m=36.80 years, sd=4.62 years) who reported on both themselves and a selected child (59 male, 65 female; m=6.46 years, sd=.95 years). Mothers completed several questionnaires examining demographic information, parental feeding styles, parental feeding practices, parental depression, anxiety and stress and parenting satisfaction and efficacy. Parenting s...
Source: Appetite - August 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Mitchell S, Brennan L, Hayes L, Miles CL Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Glucose enhancement of memory depends on initial thirst.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This double-blind, placebo-controlled study examined the influence of appetitive state on glucose enhancement of memory. Participants rated their mood, hunger and thirst, then consumed a 25g glucose drink or a matched placebo 20min prior to a verbal memory task. There was a double dissociation when the effects of thirst ratings and drink on subsequent memory performance were considered. Those who were initially less thirsty recalled significantly more words following glucose than placebo; those who were more thirsty recalled significantly fewer words after glucose than placebo. Glucose enhancement of memory may therefo...
Source: Appetite - August 2, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Scholey AB, Sünram-Lea SI, Greer J, Elliott J, Kennedy DO Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Enhanced processing of food-related pictures in female external eaters.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
The main purpose of the present study was to investigate differences in the processing of food-related pictures between women with high and low scores on a scale of external eating. Electro-encephalographic brain activity was recorded, while participants were actively exposed to pictures of food items and control pictures. The amplitude of the P300 component of the even-related potentials was used as an index of motivation-related information processing. An enlarged P300 wave to food-related pictures was found in high external eaters as compared to low external eaters at several parieto-occipital electrode positions. N...
Source: Appetite - July 29, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Nijs IM, Franken IH, Muris P Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

What you eat depends on your sex and eating companions.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
This study supports previous investigations, but is unique in making naturalistic observations. PMID: 19646494 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - July 27, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Young ME, Mizzau M, Mai NT, Sirisegaram A, Wilson M Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Experimentally induced chocolate craving leads to an attentional bias in increased distraction but not in speeded detection.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In the present study, the causal influence of chocolate craving on attentional bias for chocolate-related information was examined by experimentally inducing chocolate craving in a sample of high trait chocolate cravers versus low trait chocolate cravers. A sample of 35 high trait chocoholics and 33 low trait chocolate cravers were randomly assigned to either the exposure condition in which craving was manipulated or the non-exposure condition. To measure attentional bias, a pictorial version of the visual search paradigm (Smeets et al., 2008) was used, assessing two components: distraction and detection. It was found ...
Source: Appetite - July 27, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Smeets E, Roefs A, Jansen A Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Influence of Whole Grain Barley, Whole Grain Wheat, and Refined Rice-Based Foods on Short-term Satiety and Energy Intake.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
In conclusion, intake of a whole grain high-fiber barley, whole grain wheat, or refined rice breakfast and snack did not decrease energy intake acutely, but consumption of whole grain high-fiber barley foods significantly decreased hunger whereas whole wheat and refined rice foods did not. PMID: 19643157 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - July 26, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Schroeder N, Gallaher DD, Arndt EA, Marquart L Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Participation of corticotropin-releasing factor type 2 receptors in the acute, chronic and withdrawal actions of nicotine associated with feeding behavior in rats.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
We investigated the role of corticotropin-releasing factor type 2 (CRF(2)) receptors in acute, chronic and withdrawal effects of nicotine on feeding behavior in rats. Nicotine was injected intraperitoneally, whereas CRF, CRF(2) receptors agonist urocortin-1 or selective antagonist astressin2-B were administered directly into the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). In acute studies, nicotine, CRF or urocortin-1 produced dose dependent anorexia at 2 and 4h post-injection time-points, however, astressin2-B did not alter the food intake. Prior treatment of CRF or urocortin-1 potentiated the anorectic effect of nico...
Source: Appetite - July 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Kamdi SP, Nakhate KT, Dandekar MP, Kokare DM, Subhedar NK Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals

Applying the stages of change to multiple low-fat dietary behavioral contexts: An examination of stage occupation and discontinuity.Email this article to a colleague. Save this article to My Clippings. Discuss or comment on this article.
Consuming a diet lower in total fat is important for the prevention of many chronic diseases. Individual and population-based programs targeting this behavior must be theoretically grounded and consider the context within which dietary behavior change may be attempted. To identify the factors differentiating stage of readiness to follow a low-fat diet, a sample (N=1216) of adults was surveyed using 4 different staging algorithms to assess stages of change and associated social-cognitive variables (pros, cons, and temptation). Approximately 75% of the sample occupied the Action/Maintenance stages for all staging algorit...
Source: Appetite - July 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Authors: Plotnikoff RC, Lippke S, Johnson ST, Hotz SB, Birkett NJ, Rossi SR Tags: Appetite Source Type: journals