Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107823
Christoph Bamberg , Anne Roefs
Dietary choices significantly impact health and daily cognitive performance, prompting various recommendations for eating habits. Whereas much research has focused on the effects of actual satiety on cognitive performance, the influence of expectations regarding effects of satiety on performance remains underexplored. This study aims to address this gap by examining how the expectation of satiety influences cognitive outcomes, building on existing findings that highlight the role of placebo effects in shaping eating behaviour.
This study manipulated participants’ expectations of how their satiety (satiated versus hungry) affects their concentration through verbal placebo suggestions and measured effects on their cognitive performance. The sample consisted of four groups who were either satiated or hungry and either read the suggestion that their satiety state enhances or deteriorates their concentration. The suggestion was formulated as a scientific finding. Cognitive performance was measured remotely using a Simon Task.
Results showed that if participants’ actual satiety state was paired with a positive expectation regarding the state they were in, their performance was better than if it was paired with a negative expectation regarding their current satiety state. So, actual satiety state was not the main driver of cognitive performance, but what participants were led to believe about their current satiety state was.
These findings suggest that instructions in intervention studies should be phrased carefully to avoid expectation-related confounds. Additionally, verbal placebo suggestions could be a promising method to enhance cognitive performance in daily life.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107695
Simone P. Nguyen, Isabella J. Seip, Alexis Longinetti
This investigation explores children's food gratitude and parents' socialization of this gratitude within the United States. Study 1 examined children's spontaneous expressions of gratitude (N = 1441), focusing on the concepts of food environmental sustainability, properties, origins, scripts, and well-being. Study 2 surveyed parents (N = 110) regarding their engagement in socialization practices that promote children's food gratitude: conversations; modeling; niche selection; and, scaffolding. The results unveil nuances in younger and older children's gratitude for food concepts as well as parents' differential use of food gratitude socialization practices and emphasis on specific concepts. Furthermore, the results demonstrate that parents' food gratitude socialization practices predict parents' reports of their children's food gratitude. These studies elucidate variability in children's gratitude for food and parents' contribution to its development within this domain. These findings have implications for food gratitude socialization. (137 words)
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107816
Laurence J. Nolan, Amy Eshleman
Weight stigma, the social devaluation of people based on a perception of high body weight, is associated with a number of adverse health consequences including avoidance of medical care, suicide risk, disordered eating, decreased exercise, and weight gain. Experiences of stigma in a variety of domains in addition to weight may intersect to exacerbate these outcomes. Participants in two samples (one of 327 women and men from the general population and one of 128 female university students) reported experiences of devaluation on three body size and eight non-body size-related characteristics (referred to as multiple devaluation experience or MDE) and completed assessments of emotional eating (EE), feeling fat, weight self-stigma, impulsivity, and irrational beliefs. Participants were also asked to rate their body weight. MDE was correlated with elevated weight self-devaluation and anticipation of weight stigma, negative EE (NEE), feeling fat, and impulsivity in both men and women. None of these measures moderated the relationship between MDE and EE. The positive relationship between MDE and NEE was mediated by anticipated weight stigma only in women in the general population sample at higher levels of irrational beliefs. The positive relationship between MDE and body mass index (BMI) was mediated by NEE in women in the general population. The positive relationship between MDE and perceived body weight was mediated by feeling fat in women in both samples. These results suggest that women's experiences of stigma may increase anticipation of ongoing stigma, prompting NEE and resulting in elevated BMI. The results also suggest that feelings of fatness could lead to an elevation of women's perceived body weight, which in prospective studies is linked to later elevation of actual weight.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107833
Ana Carolina de Andrade Hovadick , Steffany Martins Moreira , Caroline Zani Rodrigues , Valéria Clarisse de Oliveira , Marly Augusto Cardoso
Objective
To develop text messages for a mHealth intervention promoting healthy eating among Amazonian schoolchildren.
Design
Two rounds of expert panel analysis and formative research interviews.
Setting
Western Brazilian Amazon, Cruzeiro do Sul, Acre, Brazil.
Participants
Included 17 healthcare professionals and 40 caregivers of school-aged children enrolled in the Maternal and Child Health and Nutrition in Acre birth cohort study.
Main outcome measures
Evaluation focused on messages' cultural appropriateness, comprehensibility, and relevance, along with caregivers' understanding and intention to adhere to the recommendations.
Analysis
Quantitative analysis employed the modified Cohen Kappa, the Scale-Content Validity Index Average (S-CVI-Ave), frequency calculations, and a ranking system.
Results
Fifty-five text messages were drafted. In the initial stage, eight messages did not achieve a sufficient score and were subsequently revised and reevaluated, ultimately gaining approval. The S-CVI-Ave for each domain was as follows: cultural appropriateness = 0.97, comprehensibility = 0.96, and relevance = 0.97. Formative research indicated a 92% understanding rate and a 70% intention rate to adhere to the proposed suggestions.
Conclusions and implications
The final set of messages was successfully culturally adapted and will contribute to the translation and dissemination of Dietary Guidelines for Brazilian Population recommendations to Western Amazon families.
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Overconsumption of fat contributes to obesity and low adherence to dietary therapy in patients with obesity. The frequency of consuming soup dishes containing “dashi” (Japanese broth), a characteristic element of the Japanese diet, is negatively associated with obesity indicators. The use of dashi is considered one of the reasons why the low-fat Japanese diet is popular; however, whether and how dashi controls the selection and intake of fat is unknown. In this study, we tested the hypothesis that bonito broth, a typical Japanese dashi, affects fat consumption in a mouse model. First, we examined the long-term or short-term intake of corn oil emulsion in adult mice fed bonito broth. No significant effect was observed. Next, mouse dams were fed bonito broth during gestation or lactation and licking of 0.5, 1, 2.5, 5, and 10% corn oil in their adult pups was evaluated in acute tests. Compared to the control group, there were significant decreases in licks for some corn oil concentrations in the gestation and lactation groups. Finally, corn oil licking was tested in pups fed bonito broth after weaning. No significant effect was detected. This study suggests that dams’ intake of bonito broth during gestation or lactation reduces the intake of fat by their pups in adulthood.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107848
Haylee Downey , Leonard H. Epstein , Jeffrey S. Stein
Sugar sweetened-beverage (SSB) consumption contributes to poor diet quality and diet-related chronic diseases. One effective public health strategy to reduce SSB consumption is to tax SSB. Laboratory approaches can complement existing methods to improve understanding of how taxes on SSB influence purchasing. In this study we sought to develop and validate an experimental marketplace that presents participants with beverages typically available at grocery stores. Participants who drink SSB (n = 73) hypothetically shopped for beverages for their household with a 40% SSB tax and with no tax (order counterbalanced). Relative to the no tax condition, SSB purchasing was lower in the tax condition. We also found that self-reported beverage expenditures were correlated with experimental marketplace beverage expenditures. Most participants noticed the tax and agreed that the experimental marketplace was easy to use. Using an experimental marketplace is a promising way to explore SSB tax design to improve public policy. We present ideas for future studies that can include real and hypothetical outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107827
Lars-Erik Casper Ferm , Mai Nguyen
Across two experimental studies, we examine the role of psychological ownership of the Earth and it's anthropomorphosis on hybrid meat purchase intentions as the result of proximal and distal message framing. Study 1 revealed that proximal (vs. distal) message framing (e.g., “Help take care of your (vs. the) Earth”) significantly increased psychological ownership and purchase intentions compared to distal framing. Study 2 extended these findings by introducing anthropomorphism (e.g., a smiling Earth). We found that introducing anthropomorphism led to similar effects on psychological ownership and purchase intention levels, regardless of framing. Yet psychological ownership of the Earth, due to message framing and anthropomorphism, did not play a mediating role on higher purchase intentions. Our study provides theoretical contributions to psychological ownership and construal level theory, while offering further insights for marketers by emphasizing distal framing and when to use anthropomorphism in environmental messaging for hybrid products.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107799
Emily Cleland , David McBey , Vitri Darlene , Benjamin J.J. McCormick , Jennie I. Macdiarmid
There is growing realisation that changes to the food system are needed to prevent the worst scenarios for future climatic change. One of these changes is for people to consume sustainable diets, which are healthy, do not place overwhelming strain on the environment, and are culturally and socially acceptable and economically attainable. One facet of such diets is that people in countries where meat is consumed in large quantities may need to reduce their intake. A 2013/14 study suggested that people were unaware of the link between diet and climate change, the need to change diets for environmental reasons and were reluctant to reduce meat eating. We sought to investigate whether people's views on the topic had changed since then by repeating focus groups with 60 participants, revisiting the same geographic areas as the original study, and ensuring rural/urban areas and levels of deprivation remained constant. We solicited people's understanding of sustainable diets and their willingness to adopt them. We found that awareness had increased, albeit not evenly among socioeconomic groups. During the intervening period greater media coverage linking environment and food was observed. There was more apparent willingness to reduce meat consumption, but many of the perceived and experienced barriers persisted that people claimed impeded them from doing so. Acknowledging the differing experiences and perceived barriers and facilitators from different groups is necessary to create interventions that address specific obstacles, making it easier for individuals to adopt more sustainable dietary practices and ultimately contributing to achieving environmental and public health goals.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107797
Pauline Paolassini-Guesnier , Marion Van Beekum , Emmanuelle Kesse-Guyot , Julia Baudry , Bernard Srour , Alice Bellicha , Rebecca Shankland , Angélique Rodhain , Christophe Leys , Serge Hercberg , Mathilde Touvier , Benjamin Allès , Sandrine Péneau
Background
Mindful eating (ME) is a promising approach for promoting healthy eating. Although an association between ME and healthier eating habits has been indicated in the literature, data remain limited. The aim of this cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between ME and several nutritional indicators, including overall diet quality, consumption of ultra-processed foods (UPF), organic foods, food groups, and intake of energy and nutrients in a large population sample.
Methods
In 2023, 13,759 participants of the NutriNet-Santé cohort study completed the Mind-Eat Scale, assessing total ME (range: 1–5), and its six sub-dimensions, and at least three 24-h dietary records. Multivariable linear regressions were performed to analyze the association between ME (independent variable) and various indices reflecting the nutritional quality of the diet: two scores reflecting the adherence to the French dietary guidelines (sPNNS-GS2) and the Mediterranean diet (MEDI-LITE score), the consumption of UPF (using the NOVA classification), organic foods and food groups, and energy and nutrient intake (dependent variables), adjusted for socio-demographic and lifestyle characteristics.
Results
ME was positively associated with French dietary guideline (β = 0.33; 95%CI: 0.30, 0.45) and Mediterranean diet (β = 0.37; 95%CI: 0.30, 0.45) scores and with organic food consumption (β = 9.72; 95%CI: 8.84, 10.60). Furthermore, ME was negatively associated with energy intake (β = −36.79; 95%CI: 50.92, −22.67) and UPF consumption (β = −1.55; 95%CI: 1.81, −1.29). ME was also associated with the intake of several food groups and nutrients.
Conclusion
Overall, ME was associated with a healthier diet. These results suggest that ME could be an interesting lever for promoting healthy eating habits. Further studies are required to better understand the relationships between ME, dietary intake, and health, particularly through the use of longitudinal studies.
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Pub Date : 2025-02-01DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107832
Pirc Matjaž , Joosten Lieke , Pietersma Karleen , Hageman Cors , Bolhuis Dieuwerke , Boesveldt Sanne
Reduction of food fat content often comes at the cost of sensory appeal. Given that odours can enhance various fat-related sensory characteristics, their use as fat substitutes seems promising. This cross-over study investigated whether sensory characteristics of a low-fat product (dairy milk) can be enhanced by the addition of a fat-related aroma (cream) and whether this influences subsequent eating behaviour within an ecologically valid scenario. Fifty-six consumers evaluated 0% fat milk without aroma (skim), 0% fat milk infused with cream aroma (skim+) and 3.5% fat milk without aroma (full) on perceived flavour intensity, creamy mouthfeel, aftertaste and liking (ranking rating scale - 100-unit VAS). In three separate subsequent sessions, 54 of the participants consumed the samples above as fixed preloads (300 ml) after which they were provided an ad-libitum breakfast consisting of granola and yogurt. Appetite ratings (hunger, fullness, desire to eat, prospective consumption) were collected pre- and post-preload and post-breakfast. While skim + samples were more liked compared to skim ones, there was no difference in flavour intensity, creamy mouthfeel, or aftertaste. Full fat samples were rated higher than both skim and skim + ones on all attributes. Despite the added aroma (skim+) enhancing liking, it did not influence subsequent intake amounts or eating rate. In fact, there were no differences in intake or appetite between any of the preloads. This demonstrates that odours can be used to enhance liking of reduced-fat food products, yet the broader implication of such an approach on food intake behaviour remains to elucidated.
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