ReviewPhysiology & behavior2012
Can limiting dietary variety assist with reducing energy intake and weight loss?
Review in Physiology & behavior, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 37 citations in OpenAlex.
- 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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- Evaluation of meal replacements and a home food environment intervention for long-term weight loss: a randomized controlled trial.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2018Trial
- Frequency of Consuming Foods Predicts Changes in Cravings for Those Foods During Weight Loss: The POUNDS Lost Study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2017Trial
- Reducing variety enhances effectiveness of family-based treatment for pediatric obesity.Eating behaviors · 2015Trial
- Baseline dietary patterns are a significant consideration in correcting dietary exposure for weight loss.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2013Trial
- Examining a ripple effect: do spouses' behavior changes predict each other's weight loss?Journal of obesity · 2013Trial
- Do routinized eating behaviors support weight loss? An examination of food logs from behavioral weight loss participants.Health psychology : official journal of the Division of Health Psychology, American Psychological Association · 2026Article
- Initial implicit association between whole grains and taste does not predict consumption of whole grains in low-whole grain consumers: a pilot randomized controlled trial.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
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- Is vitamin C enough? A case report of scurvy in a five-year-old girl and review of the literature.BMC pediatrics · 2019Review
- Using an introduced index to assess the association between food diversity and metabolic syndrome and its components in Chinese adults.BMC cardiovascular disorders · 2018Article
- Understanding the Relationship Between Food Variety, Food Intake, and Energy Balance.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Seasoning ingredient variety, but not quality, is associated with greater intake of beans and rice among urban Costa Rican adults.Nutrition research (New York, N.Y.) · 2016Article
- Greater Healthful Dietary Variety Is Associated with Greater 2-Year Changes in Weight and Adiposity in the Preventing Overweight Using Novel Dietary Strategies (POUNDS Lost) Trial.The Journal of nutrition · 2016Article
- Greater healthful food variety as measured by the US Healthy Food Diversity index is associated with lower odds of metabolic syndrome and its components in US adults.The Journal of nutrition · 2015Article
- Variety, palatability, and obesity.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Review
- Behavioral lifestyle intervention in the treatment of obesity.Health services insights · 2013Review
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Abstract
Due to the high prevalence of overweight and obesity, developing strategies to improve weight loss and weight loss maintenance is imperative. One dietary environmental variable that has received little attention in being targeted in an intervention to assist with obesity treatment is dietary variety. Experimental research has consistently shown that greater dietary variety increases consumption, with the effect of variety on consumption hypothesized to be a consequence of the differential experience of the more varied sensory properties of food under those conditions with greater dietary variety. As reduced energy intake is required for weight loss, limiting variety, particularly in food groups that are high in energy-density and low in nutrient-density, may assist with reducing energy intake and improving weight loss. A series of investigations, both observational and experimental, were conducted to examine if limiting variety in an energy-dense, non-nutrient-dense food group, snack foods (i.e., cookies, chips), assisted with reducing energy intake of the food group and improving weight loss. Results of the investigations suggest that a prescription for limiting variety in a food group can be implemented during obesity treatment, limiting variety is associated with the occurrence of monotony, and that reducing food group variety is related to decreased consumption of that food group. Future research is needed to ascertain the long-term effect of prescriptions targeting dietary variety on weight loss and weight loss maintenance.
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