Obese people enjoy food less
Researchers
have found that obesity
and food restrictions are associated with less food enjoyment.
Led
by the University of Granada (UGR), the study has been published in the
journal, Food Quality and Preference.
For
this work, 552 adolescents between 11 and 17 years old from several high
schools in Granada, have had their emotional reactions analysed during the
visualisation of images of sweet foods.
Thus,
the researchers observed that those adolescents who reported different types of
dietary restrictions (different types of diet, dieting very often, skipping
breakfast, eating less frequently, etc.), along with those who were obese and
those who had unhealthy behaviours unrelated to food (such as smoking or having
insufficient sleep), felt less pleasure, attraction and desire to eat the
highly palatable foods they were looking at (images of sweets, doughnuts,
ice-creams, chocolate crepes, etc.).
As
explained by Laura Miccoli, main author of the study, "Adolescence,
typically associated with greater body dissatisfaction, is a key stage for the
development of risky eating behaviors, related both to uncontrolled
restrictions on food intake -which may lead to the development of eating
disorders- and with the stabilization of overweight and obesity." Read
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