Trial reportThe American journal of clinical nutrition2009
Variety influences habituation of motivated behavior for food and energy intake in children.
Trial report in The American journal of clinical nutrition, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04027426 (Families Becoming Healthy Together), which is not on this map. Cited by 34 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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34 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Effect of food variety on intake of a meal: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Altering the availability or proximity of food, alcohol, and tobacco products to change their selection and consumption.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019Pooled it
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- Reducing variety enhances effectiveness of family-based treatment for pediatric obesity.Eating behaviors · 2015Trial
- Serving a variety of vegetables and fruit as a snack increased intake in preschool children.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2013Trial
- Food characteristics, long-term habituation and energy intake. Laboratory and field studies.Appetite · 2013Trial
- Long-term habituation to food in obese and nonobese women.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2011Trial
- Differential effects of daily snack food intake on the reinforcing value of food in obese and nonobese women.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2009Trial
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- Optimizing an extended care intervention to promote weight loss maintenance: Protocol for the OPT-X multiphase optimization strategy factorial trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Valuing the Diversity of Research Methods to Advance Nutrition Science.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Varied diets: implications for lamb performance, rumen characteristics, total antioxidant status, and welfare.Journal of animal science · 2021Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Functional diversity vs. monotony: the effect of a multiforage diet as opposed to a single forage diet on animal intake, performance, welfare, and urinary nitrogen excretion.Journal of animal science · 2021Article
- Rationale and protocol for translating basic habituation research into family-based childhood obesity treatment: Families becoming healthy together study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- High reinforcing value of food is related to slow habituation to food.Eating behaviors · 2020Article
- Using an introduced index to assess the association between food diversity and metabolic syndrome and its components in Chinese adults.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2018Article
- Greater vegetable variety and amount are associated with lower prevalence of coronary heart disease: National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, 1999-2014.Nutrition journal · 2018Article
- Understanding the Relationship Between Food Variety, Food Intake, and Energy Balance.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
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Abstract
backgroundResearch has shown that variety reduces the rate of habituation, or a general reduction in the rate of responding, for low-energy-density (LED) and high-energy-density (HED) foods.
objectiveWe assessed whether the effects of variety on habituation of motivation to eat are different in overweight and lean children.
designOverweight and lean children (n = 84) were randomly assigned to groups that varied as to whether they received their favorite or a variety of LED or HED foods.
resultsHabituation was slower for overweight than for nonoverweight children (P = 0.008), for a variety of foods than for the same foods (P < 0.001), and for LED than for HED foods (P < 0.001). Energy intake was greater for overweight than for nonoverweight children provided with variety (P = 0.004) and was greater for overweight or nonoverweight children provided with the same food (P < 0.001). A variety of HED foods increased energy intake more than did the same HED foods (P < 0.001); this increase was greater than energy intake with the same or a variety of LED foods (P < 0.001). Children who sensitized, or showed an increase in responding before habituating, showed slower habituation (P < 0.001) and consumed more energy (P = 0.039) than did children who did not sensitize.
conclusionsHabituation is influenced by variety of foods, and overweight children increase energy intake more with variety than do leaner children. Research is needed to evaluate mechanisms of how variety influences the motivation to eat and energy intake, and how the variety effect can be used to influence intake across multiple eating occasions in children.
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