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Maintaining a healthy weight may involve compensating for previously consumed calories at subsequent meals. To test whether heavier children demonstrated poorer caloric compensation across a range of conditions, and to explore whether compensation failure was the result of inadequate adjustment of overall intake or specific over-consumption of highly palatable, high energy-density ‘junk’ foods, we...
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome (PCOS), the most common endocrine condition in women, is often anecdotally associated with binge eating behaviours and food cravings; however there is a paucity of research. This study aimed to report the prevalence of binge eating and food cravings and their relation to obesity risk in women with PCOS. Participants completed an online survey including the Bulimia Investigatory...
Aetiological explanations for overeating and obesity often invoke ‘emotional’ or ‘comfort’ eating: an overlapping risk factor is ‘disinhibited eating’, implying eating without nutritional need, and sensitivity to food cues. This is illustrated by a recent study (Wilkinson, Rowe, Bishop, & Brunstrom, 2010)[[Au: The reference “Wilkinson, Rowe, Bishop, and Brunstrom (2010)” is cited in the text but...
Food neophobic children avoid certain foods; they also differ in their odour pleasure and intensity ratings and sniffing vigour. However, the importance of olfaction in determining food acceptance by neophobic children is not clear. Moreover, sensory exploration may interact with fear of contamination. We investigated the influence of neophobia on exploratory sniffing, sensory sensitivity and effects...
Trait sensitivity to rewards may predict risk of unhealthy behaviours, including overeating, binge eating and obesity. We investigated associations between weight maintenance in young women, and measures of reward sensitivity, both general and food-related, and of response bias. We hypothesised that successful weight maintenance would be associated with lower reward sensitivity, less responsiveness...
In a recent research report, [Bodenlos et al. 2007. Vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) acutely alters food craving in adults with depression. Appetite, 48, 145–153] concluded that, in depressed patients, acute activation of a device for VNS caused a significant change in cravings specifically for sweet foods. We argue that there is no evidence for any effect on food cravings. Rather, the findings indicate...
In their defence of their original paper, Bodenlos, Borckardt and George (2007) maintain that there is little consensus in measurement of food craving and their own measure bears some resemblance to others. However, we argue that a useful concept of craving, and its measurement, must be distinguished from more general measures of appetite. Furthermore, we believe that their defence of their own significant...
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