Trial reportAppetite2017
Caloric compensation in preschool children: Relationships with body mass and differences by food category.
Trial report in Appetite, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
23 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Inter-individual differences in children's short-term energy compensation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Obesity and Sex-Related Associations With Differential Effects of Sucralose vs Sucrose on Appetite and Reward Processing: A Randomized Crossover Trial.JAMA network open · 2021Trial
- Weight discordant siblings' ability to reduce energy intake at a meal as compensation for prior energy intake from sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).Nutrition and health · 2021Trial
- Effect of a Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative on Obesity in Urban School-aged Children: A Cluster Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA pediatrics · 2019Trial
- Appetite Self-Regulation in Childhood: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Model of Processes and Mechanisms With Implications for Research and Practice.Nutrition reviews · 2025Review
- Associations between child eating behaviors with eating patterns and diet quality in preschool-aged children.Appetite · 2024Article
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- Variety of High and Very Low-Energy Density Foods among Preschool-Aged Children and Associations with Food Intake, Diet Quality, and Weight Status.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Neural correlates of appetite in adolescents.Appetite · 2023Article
- Biobehavioral susceptibility for obesity in childhood: Behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging studies of appetite.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Dragon Fruit Peel Waste (Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Children's eating behaviours and related constructs: conceptual and theoretical foundations and their implications.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2023Review
- Parental perception of facilitators and barriers to health among young children with down syndrome: a qualitative study.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2023Article
- How much and what: Using a buffet to determine self-regulation of food intake among young school-age children.Physiology & behavior · 2022Article
- Examining the Role of Food Form on Children's Self-Regulation of Energy Intake.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Associations between number of siblings, birth order, eating rate and adiposity in children and adults.Clinical obesity · 2021Article
- Development and preliminary testing of a technology-enhanced intervention to improve energy intake regulation in children.Appetite · 2020Article
- Caloric compensation and appetite control in children of different weight status and predisposition to obesity.Appetite · 2020Article
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- "Food" and "non-food" self-regulation in childhood: a review and reciprocal analysis.The international journal of behavioral nutrition and physical activity · 2020Review
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Abstract
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 administered two compensation tests to a sample of 4-5 y olds. For Test A, preloads varied only in carbohydrate content and were organoleptically indistinguishable (200 ml orange-flavored beverage [0 kcal vs. 200 kcal]). For Test B, the preloads varied substantially in both macronutrient composition and learned gustatory cues to caloric content (200 ml water [0 kcal] vs. 200 ml strawberry milkshake [200 kcal]). Each preload was followed 30 min later by a multi-item ad-libitum meal containing junk foods (chocolate cookies, cheese-flavored crackers) and core foods (fruits and vegetables, bread rolls, protein foods). Testing took place at the children's own school under normal lunch-time conditions. Children were weighed and measured. Caloric compensation occurred in both tests, in terms of total, junk and core food intake (RMANOVA, all p < 0.01). Higher BMI z scores were associated with greater average caloric compensation (r = -0.26; p < 0.05), such that overweight/obese children showed least compensation (41%), children over the 50
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