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Acceptance of Nordic snack bars in children aged 8–11 years

open access: yesFood & Nutrition Research, 2012
Background: A health promoting diet is suggested to be tailored to regional circumstances to preserve the cultural diversity in eating habits, as well as contribute to more environmentally friendly eating.
Anna Holmer   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Drivers of food consumption among overweight mother-child dyads in Malawi.

open access: yesPLoS ONE, 2020
To address the increase in overweight and obesity among mothers and children in sub-Saharan Africa, an understanding of the factors that drive their food consumption is needed.
Chrissie Thakwalakwa   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Development and Public Health Implications of Food Preferences in Children

open access: yesFrontiers in Nutrition, 2017
Food preferences are a primary determinant of dietary intake and behaviors, and they persist from early childhood into later life. As such, establishing preferences for healthy foods from a young age is a promising approach to improving diet quality, a ...
Jacob P. Beckerman   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clinical features and food preferences in persons with irritable bowel syndrome against the background of overweight and obesity

open access: yesConsilium Medicum, 2022
Aim. To identify the clinical features of the course and nutritional preferences of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) against the background of overweight and obesity in order to increase the effectiveness of therapy in this cohort of patients.
Maksim M. Fedorin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Children’s and Adolescents’ Snacking: Interplay between the Individual and the School Class

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2015
Objective: In schools, perceived norms of classmates facilitate but can also inhibit unhealthy food intake in children and adolescents. However, the role of actual class behaviors and attitudes is less established.
Helge eGiese   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trends in Food Preferences and Sustainable Behavior during the COVID-19 Lockdown: Evidence from Spanish Consumers

open access: yesFoods, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic poses a threat to global food security, and it changes consumers’ food buying and consumption behavior. This research not only investigates trends in Spanish consumers’ general food shopping and consumption habits during the ...
Shanshan Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The effect of sucrase-isomaltase deficiency on metabolism, food intake and preferences: protocol for a dietary intervention study

open access: yesInternational Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2023
In Greenland, traditional marine foods are increasingly being replaced by sucrose- and starch-rich foods. A knock-out c.273_274delAG variant in the sucrase-isomaltase (SI) gene is relatively common in Greenland, with homozygous carriers being unable to ...
Ninna Karsbæk Senftleber   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

A marker of biological ageing predicts adult risk preference in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Why are some individuals more prone to gamble than others? Animals often show preferences between 2 foraging options with the same mean reward but different degrees of variability in the reward, and such risk preferences vary between individuals ...
Andrews, Clare   +5 more
core   +3 more sources

Consumer preferences and willingness to pay for the health aspects of food

open access: yesActa Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 2011
Agri-food systems in the Czech Republic are currently undergoing a profound transformation toward high-value products. Appropriate policies are needed to guide this transformation, presupposing good understanding of consumer preferences.
Simona Miškolci
doaj   +1 more source

Dopamine and learned food preferences [PDF]

open access: yesPhysiology & Behavior, 2011
An early study performed in Bart Hoebel's laboratory suggested that dopamine (DA) signaling in the nucleus accumbens was involved in learned flavor preferences produced by post-oral nutritive feedback. This paper summarizes our studies investigating the role of DA in flavor preference conditioning using selective DA receptor antagonists.
Anthony, Sclafani   +2 more
openaire   +2 more sources

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