ArticleEating behaviors2020
High reinforcing value of food is related to slow habituation to food.
Article in Eating behaviors, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.
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- Appetite Self-Regulation in Childhood: A Narrative Review and Conceptual Model of Processes and Mechanisms With Implications for Research and Practice.Nutrition reviews · 2025Review
- Cross-sectional study protocol to assess the environmental exposure of endocrine disruptive chemicals: bisphenol-A and heavy metals in children.Pediatric endocrinology, diabetes, and metabolism · 2022Article
- Food reinforcement and habituation to food are processes related to initiation and cessation of eating.Physiology & behavior · 2021Review
- Conceptualizing and Measuring Appetite Self-Regulation Phenotypes and Trajectories in Childhood: A Review of Person-Centered Strategies.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundThe rate of habituation to food and reinforcing value of food are processes that are related to food intake and body weight. Reinforcing value of food provides an index of the motivation to eat, while habituation provides an index on how repeated presentations of food relate to reduced behavioral and physiological responses to that food.
objectiveTo investigate the relationship between habituation phenotypes to salty, sweet and savory foods and reinforcing value of those foods.
designA sample of 229 8-12-year-old children at risk for obesity completed reinforcing value and habituation tasks for foods that varied in savory, sweet or salty tastes. Multivariate Group Based Trajectory Modeling was used to create four unique patterns of habitation to foods based on detailed 10 s epochs of responding for food over a 24 min task. Differences in reinforcing value of food were assessed for these habituation phenotypes.
resultsResults showed a graded relationship between the overall habituation phenotypes and reinforcing value of food, as those with the relatively flat habituation phenotype found food more reinforcing than those with phenotypes that showed rapidly decelerating responding across all taste categories.
conclusionsThose who habituated slower found food more reinforcing than those with a rapid habituation phenotype. Implications of these phenotypes for understanding how habituation relates to food intake are discussed.
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