Age and gender differences in children's food preferences [PDF]
The present study was conducted to examine the developmental patterning of food preferences in a large sample of British schoolchildren and to investigate possible gender differences.
Cooke, LJ, Wardle, J
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The influence of parental food preference and neophobia on children with phenylketonuria (PKU)
Background: In a previous case-control study, we demonstrated that children with PKU and non-PKU controls preferred sweet foods. Additionally, children with PKU exhibited food neophobia, with no preference for bitter tasting foods associated with the ...
Sharon Evans +5 more
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Food socialization of children with Prader-Willi syndrome: an interdisciplinary problematization
Eating “disorders” of people with Prader-Willi syndrome are frequently reported in the biomedical literature. The eating behaviors are presented as a syndrome-specific trajectory over the course of a lifetime.
Amandine Rochedy +9 more
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Predation risk reduces a female preference for heterospecific males in the green swordtail [PDF]
The presence of a predator can result in the alteration, loss or reversal of a mating preference. Under predation risk, females often change their initial preference for conspicuous males, favouring less flashy males to reduce the risk of being detected ...
Alonzo, Suzanne H. +2 more
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Individual Variation in Response to Novel Food in Captive Capuchin Monkeys (Sapajus spp.)
How animals respond to novelty may have important outcomes in terms of fitness. On the one hand, aversion to novel stimuli may reduce the risks of consuming potentially toxic food or encountering predators.
Marialba Ventricelli +9 more
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Cross-Context Responses to Novelty in Rural and Urban Small Mammals
The Anthropocene is the era of urbanization. The accelerating expansion of cities occurs at the expense of natural reservoirs of biodiversity and presents animals with challenges for which their evolutionary past might not have prepared them.
Valeria Mazza +6 more
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Dysregulated TCA cycle contributes to Alzheimer's disease (AD) pathogenesis. Here, we show that microglial isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) is a critical driver. Elevated IDH1 disrupts citrate metabolism and mitochondrial function, exacerbating AD pathology.
Qianqian Li +13 more
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Taste, Olfactory and Trigeminal Neophobia in Rats with Forebrain Lesions [PDF]
The present study was designed to examine whether lesions of the insular cortex (IC; Experiment 1), the basolateral amygdala (BLA) or medial amygdala (MeA; Experiment 2) influence the neophobic reactions to orally consumed liquid stimuli. Three different
Lin, Jian-You +3 more
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Food fussiness and food neophobia share a common etiology in early childhood [PDF]
BACKGROUND: 'Food fussiness' (FF) is the tendency to be highly selective about which foods one is willing to eat, and emerges in early childhood; 'food neophobia' (FN) is a closely related characteristic but specifically refers to rejection of unfamiliar
American Psychiatric Association +38 more
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Consumer Valuation of Meat Alternatives and Labeling Policies: A Comparative Perspective
ABSTRACT This study investigates and compares US consumer perceptions and the impact of environmental, human health, and animal welfare information related to conventional meat on preferences for meat alternatives and labeling policies. Using the best–worst scaling method across 10 different burger alternatives, our results show that the meat burger is
Daniele Asioli +5 more
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