ArticleObesity surgery2013
The hedonic drive to consume palatable foods appears to be lower in gastric band carriers than in severely obese patients who have not undergone a bariatric surgery.
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- Homeostatic Appetite and Hedonic Hunger 13 Years After Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass: Potential Associations and Predictive Value in Determining Long-Term Weight Loss Outcomes.Obesity surgery · 2025Article
- Changes in hedonic hunger and food reward after a similar weight loss induced by a very low-energy diet or bariatric surgery.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- Associations between hedonic hunger and BMI during a two-year behavioural weight loss trial.PloS one · 2021Article
- Psychometric properties of Power of Food Scale in Iranian adult population: gender-related differences in hedonic hunger.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2020Article
- Association between hedonic hunger and glycemic control in non-obese and obese patients with type 2 diabetes.Journal of diabetes investigation · 2018Article
- Association between hedonic hunger and body-mass index versus obesity status.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Food for Thought: Reward Mechanisms and Hedonic Overeating in Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Power of Food Scale in association with weight outcomes and dieting in a nationally representative cohort of U.S. young adults.Appetite · 2016Article
- Greater Food Reward Sensitivity Is Associated with More Frequent Intake of Discretionary Foods in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults.Frontiers in nutrition · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundWe have recently shown that severely obese patients display a markedly enhanced drive to consume palatable food, and that this hedonic hunger is reduced after gastric bypass surgery. Adjustable gastric banding is another frequently performed bariatric operation with unknown effects on hedonic hunger motivation. Here, we compared the level of hedonic hunger in patients who have undergone a gastric banding with that in severely obese patients who have not undergone a bariatric operation and nonobese controls.
methodsIn a cross-sectional case-control study, 116 gastric banding patients, 138 severely obese patients, and 133 nonobese controls were examined with the Power of Food Scale (PFS), a questionnaire that reliably measures an individual's motivation to consume highly palatable food.
resultsWhile the severely obese patients displayed markedly higher aggregated PFS scores and scores on the subdomain "generally available" and "physically present" food than the nonobese controls (all P < 0.001), the gastric banding patients showed significantly lower scores on all of these variables than the obese patients (all P < 0.001). However, the generally available food score was still higher in gastric banding patients than in the nonobese controls (P = 0.001).
conclusionsData suggest that adjustable gastric banding may reduce the excessive appetite for palatable foods in severely obese patients. This suggestion needs to be confirmed in longitudinal studies.
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