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Cognitive restraint exerts a quantifiable limiting effect on intake at meal times and this effect can be offset by cognitive distraction.

Cancer patients treated by chemotherapy demonstrated a temporary taste sensitivity deficit. Associated with the illness due to the treatment, this deficit explains the patients complaining of "abnormal or bad tastes", which results in food aversion and has a negative impact on nutritional status and quality of life. In order to prevent the risk of anorexia and the enhanced morbidity related to this deficit, treatment should include relevant information to the subject for anticipating objective taste modifications and a psychological follow-up during the actual change of taste quality perceptions in everyday life.