Trial reportAppetite2013
Food characteristics, long-term habituation and energy intake. Laboratory and field studies.
Trial report in Appetite, 2013. 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 18 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Families Becoming Healthy Together
Who cites it
18 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
- Episodic future thinking reduces eating in a food court.Eating behaviors · 2016Trial
- Reducing variety enhances effectiveness of family-based treatment for pediatric obesity.Eating behaviors · 2015Trial
- Optimizing an extended care intervention to promote weight loss maintenance: Protocol for the OPT-X multiphase optimization strategy factorial trial.Contemporary clinical trials · 2026Article
- Switching between foods: A potential behavioral phenotype of hedonic hunger and increased obesity risk in children.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
- Valuing the Diversity of Research Methods to Advance Nutrition Science.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2022Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Rationale and protocol for translating basic habituation research into family-based childhood obesity treatment: Families becoming healthy together study.Contemporary clinical trials · 2020Article
- Consumer perception of food variety in the UK: an exploratory mixed-methods analysis.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Behavioral interventions for obesity in children and adults: Evidence base, novel approaches, and translation into practice.The American psychologist · 2018Review
- Understanding the Relationship Between Food Variety, Food Intake, and Energy Balance.Current obesity reports · 2018Review
- Transdisciplinary translational behavioral (TDTB) research: opportunities, barriers, and innovations.Translational behavioral medicine · 2016Review
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- Variety, palatability, and obesity.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2014Review
- Habituation of reinforcer effectiveness.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2014Review
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Abstract
Greater food variety is related to increased energy intake, and one approach to reduce food intake is to reduce food variety. The effects of varying the variety of foods at the dinner meal to reduce energy intake was assessed in laboratory and field experiments. Experiment 1 randomly assigned 31 overweight children to one of three conditions that provided one laboratory meal per day over a week. Conditions were the SAME macaroni and cheese, SIMILAR types of macaroni and cheese, or a VARIETY of high-energy-dense foods. On days 1 and 5 all children consumed the same macaroni and cheese meal. Results showed significant differences in energy consumed between SAME and SIMILAR versus VARIETY from day 1 to 5, with SAME and SIMILAR decreasing and VARIETY increasing energy intake. Trials to habituation, a potential mechanism for the variety effect, showed the same pattern of between group differences as energy intake. Experiment 2 randomly assigned 30 overweight children to conditions that provided the SAME, SIMILAR or VARIETY of high-energy-dense entrees along with a variety of low-energy-dense dinner entrees to eat in their homes for 4 weeks. Results showed significant between group differences in energy intake across weeks, with significant decreases over weeks for the SAME and SIMILAR versus VARIETY groups. The pattern of results across the experiments shows the same pattern of reduction in energy intake if children eat the same or similar characteristics of foods (types of macaroni and cheese), which may provide ideas about how to develop dietary variety prescriptions that can reduce intake and be tested in clinical trials.
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