Examination of eating competence in a geo-diverse sample with metabolic syndrome
Appetite. 2024 Apr 25:107373. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107373. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTEating competence (EatC) is an intra-individual approach to eating attitudes and behaviors associated with greater well-being. EatC research has not included persons with confirmed metabolic syndrome (MetS). Therefore, EatC of persons with MetS was explored to identify unique associations and inform implementation of MetS lifestyle interventions using baseline data from a multisite, randomized trial of a 2-year lifestyle intervention with MetS. EatC, measured with the Satter Eating Competence Inventory 2.0 (ecSI 2.0™), was exami...
Source: Appetite - April 27, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Barbara Lohse Bong Nguyen Betty M Drees Lisa Bailey-Davis Kevin S Masters Jacinda Nicklas Bryce Daniels Elizabeth H Ruder Nicole Trabold Source Type: research
Nudging Towards Sustainable Dining: Exploring Menu Nudges to Promote Vegetarian Meal Choices in Restaurants
Appetite. 2024 Apr 24:107376. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107376. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTFood choice behavior plays a large role in achieving sustainability goals. Meat in particular has a negative environmental impact as compared with plant-based food - and is more frequently chosen in restaurant contexts. To increase plant-based meal choices in restaurants, we tested three nudges for menus that are likely to be implemented by restaurant owners: a hedonic label (e.g., artisanal vegetable burger), a chef's recommendation (specifying the vegetarian option as the chef's favorite), and a salience nudge (a box around the ...
Source: Appetite - April 26, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Robert J Weijers Iris W H Claessens Marleen Gillebaart Denise T D de Ridder Source Type: research
Still just a matter of taste? Sensorial appreciation of seafood is associated with more frequent and diverse consumption
Appetite. 2024 Apr 23:107369. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107369. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTImproving health and sustainability outcomes in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic) nations necessitates a reduction in red meat consumption. Seafood is often overlooked in achieving this goal. However, simply consuming more of familiar fish species places high stress on production of these species. For this reason, diversification of seafood consumption is also critical. Here the motives for seafood consumption (frequency and diversity) are investigated across two studies by adapting the 4Ns survey to the seaf...
Source: Appetite - April 25, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Elizabeth S Collier Elena Costa Kathryn L Harris Marcus Bendtsen Jun Niimi Source Type: research
Still just a matter of taste? Sensorial appreciation of seafood is associated with more frequent and diverse consumption
Appetite. 2024 Apr 23:107369. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107369. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTImproving health and sustainability outcomes in WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich, Democratic) nations necessitates a reduction in red meat consumption. Seafood is often overlooked in achieving this goal. However, simply consuming more of familiar fish species places high stress on production of these species. For this reason, diversification of seafood consumption is also critical. Here the motives for seafood consumption (frequency and diversity) are investigated across two studies by adapting the 4Ns survey to the seaf...
Source: Appetite - April 25, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Elizabeth S Collier Elena Costa Kathryn L Harris Marcus Bendtsen Jun Niimi Source Type: research
Examining parents' experiences and challenges of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour
This study aimed to explore parents' experiences of feeding children with avid eating behaviour and to understand any challenges experienced in this context. Semi-structured interviews with parents (N=15) of a preschool child (3-5 years) identified as having an avid eating behaviour profile explored how children's avid eating manifests, the parental feeding practices used to manage avid eating, and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four core themes were generated. Theme one, 'Have they got worms? Children's insatiable hunger', captures parents' interpreta...
Source: Appetite - April 24, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Katie L Edwards Jacqueline Blissett Helen Croker Claire Farrow Moritz Herle Alice Kininmonth Clare Llewellyn Abigail Pickard Emma Haycraft Source Type: research
Examining parents' experiences and challenges of feeding preschool children with avid eating behaviour
This study aimed to explore parents' experiences of feeding children with avid eating behaviour and to understand any challenges experienced in this context. Semi-structured interviews with parents (N=15) of a preschool child (3-5 years) identified as having an avid eating behaviour profile explored how children's avid eating manifests, the parental feeding practices used to manage avid eating, and the perceived effectiveness of these strategies. Data were analysed using reflexive thematic analysis. Four core themes were generated. Theme one, 'Have they got worms? Children's insatiable hunger', captures parents' interpreta...
Source: Appetite - April 24, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Katie L Edwards Jacqueline Blissett Helen Croker Claire Farrow Moritz Herle Alice Kininmonth Clare Llewellyn Abigail Pickard Emma Haycraft Source Type: research
Development of the Modified Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale (mProWS)
Appetite. 2024 Apr 21:107370. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107370. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale (ProWS) is a 29-item measure that operationalizes physical and psychological indicators of withdrawal symptoms associated with cutting down on the consumption of ultra-processed foods. The current study developed a briefer 7-item version of the ProWS (modified ProWS; mProWS) using the participant sample from the ProWS validation paper (n = 231). Then, in an independent sample recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, 244 participants (55.3% females) completed the mProWS, the ProWS, and measu...
Source: Appetite - April 23, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Shuchen Hu Ashley N Gearhardt Erica M LaFata Source Type: research
Development of the Modified Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale (mProWS)
Appetite. 2024 Apr 21:107370. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107370. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe Highly Processed Food Withdrawal Scale (ProWS) is a 29-item measure that operationalizes physical and psychological indicators of withdrawal symptoms associated with cutting down on the consumption of ultra-processed foods. The current study developed a briefer 7-item version of the ProWS (modified ProWS; mProWS) using the participant sample from the ProWS validation paper (n = 231). Then, in an independent sample recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, 244 participants (55.3% females) completed the mProWS, the ProWS, and measu...
Source: Appetite - April 23, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Shuchen Hu Ashley N Gearhardt Erica M LaFata Source Type: research
Utilising online paradigms to explore the effect of boredom and sadness on children's snack choice: the role of parental feeding practices and child temperament
This study's findings also highlight different methods that can be successfully used to stimulate emotional experiences in children by using novel online paradigms, and also discusses the challenges around using online methods to measure children's intended food choice.PMID:38648954 | DOI:10.1016/j.appet.2024.107366 (Source: Appetite)
Source: Appetite - April 22, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Rebecca A Stone Emma Haycraft Jacqueline Blissett Claire Farrow Source Type: research
Association between parental resource depletion and parent use of specific food parenting practices: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study
This study aimed to improve our understanding of the correlates of resource depletion in parents, examine the association between resource depletion and use of coercive food parenting practices, and explore the relationship between resource depletion and stress. Children aged 5-9 and their parents (n=631 dyads) were recruited from primary care clinics in a large metropolitan area in the United States in 2016-2019. Ecological momentary assessment was carried out over seven days with parents. Frequency tabulations and descriptive statistics were calculated to examine the overall, between-participant, and within-participant f...
Source: Appetite - April 21, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: A D Tate A Trofholz A Youngblood A B Goldschmidt J M Berge Source Type: research
A systematic review of observational studies exploring the relationship between health and non-weight-centric eating behaviours
This study aimed to systematically evaluate 'health-centric' eating behaviour reflective of weight-neutral approaches, and their relationship with health (physical and mental) and health promoting behaviours. A systematic search was performed, identifying observational studies with adult populations, ≥1 physical/mental health outcome(s), and ≥1 validated measure(s) of health-centric eating behaviour. Study design, sample characteristics and outcomes were extracted and characterised into four domains. Our search identified 8281 records, with 86 studies, 75 unique datasets, and 78 unique exposures including 94,710 indivi...
Source: Appetite - April 21, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Melissa Eaton Yasmine Probst Tiarna Foster Julia Messore Laura Robinson Source Type: research
Toward a memory perspective on eating psychopathology: An investigation of the types of childhood and adolescence memories that are associated with eating disorder symptoms
Appetite. 2024 Apr 18;198:107364. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107364. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTThe cognitive mechanisms through which specific life events affect the development and maintenance of eating disorders (ED) have received limited attention in the scientific literature. The present research aims to address this gap by adopting a memory perspective to explore the type of life events associated with eating psychopathology and how these events are encoded and reconstructed as memories. Two studies (n = 208 and n = 193) were conducted to investigate the relationship between specific memories and eating disorder ps...
Source: Appetite - April 20, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Frederick L Philippe No émie Carbonneau Annabelle Fortin Valerie Guilbault Nabil Bouizegarene Juliana Mazanek Antunes Sook Ning Chua Source Type: research
Fruitful changes? Exploring household fruit purchase decisions following comprehensive food policy regulations in Chile
This study analyzes whether, following the announcement, modification, and implementation of Chile's Food Labeling and Advertising law targeting highly processed food (occurring in 2012, 2015, and 2016, respectively), households improved their fruit purchase decisions: purchase participation (i.e., buying likelihood) and purchase quantity. Expenditure data from a representative sample of Chilean households were employed, covering two consecutive survey waves conducted in 2011/2012 and 2016/2017. After controlling for socioeconomic factors (e.g., prices and income), results indicate that only purchase participation increase...
Source: Appetite - April 20, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Grace Melo Source Type: research
Food parenting and Children's eating behaviour: Exploring the role of coparenting
Appetite. 2024 Apr 18;198:107367. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107367. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTParents have primary influence over the development of their children's eating behaviours, however less attention has been given to whether or how their coparenting plays a role in this association. The aim of this study was to investigate the cross-sectional associations between mothers' and fathers' food parenting practices and children's eating behaviour and examine whether coparenting quality moderates or confounds these associations. Parents (222 mothers and 167 fathers) with children 18 months to 5 years completed an onl...
Source: Appetite - April 19, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Sabrina Douglas Gerarda Darlington Kirsten Davison John Beaton Jess Haines Source Type: research
Feeding Under Fire: Relations between parental stress hormones and controlling feeding behaviors
Appetite. 2024 Apr 17:107365. doi: 10.1016/j.appet.2024.107365. Online ahead of print.ABSTRACTUnder stress, parents tend to use more controlling feeding behaviors toward their children (Berge et al., 2017; Doan et al., 2022; Loth et al., 2016). However, the majority of prior work focuses on subjective reports of stress, and there is a dearth of research examining parental physiological stress and its impact on feeding behaviors. In the current study, we examined how parental physiological stress reactivity would influence their feeding behaviors under mild stress in a lab-based setting. Parents (n = 83, 50 % females) and t...
Source: Appetite - April 19, 2024 Category: Nutrition Authors: Shruthi Venkatesh Stacey N Doan Source Type: research
