Eat it or beat it. The differential effects of food temptations on overweight and normal-weight restrained eaters

Ouwehand, Carolijn; Papies, Esther K.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2010.04.009

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“…This task has been shown to reflect impulsive food choices, and to be sensitive to individual differences (Custers & Aarts, 2005;Finlayson, King, & Blundell, 2007;Ouwehand & Papies, 2010). We included both healthy and unhealthy foods, so that we could assess whether participants' preferences and choices shifted toward healthier options after applying mindful attention.…”

Section: Experiments 2: Mindful Attention and The Effects Of Hungermentioning

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The benefits of simply observing: Mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

Papies¹,

Pronk²,

Keesman³

et al. 2015

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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Mindful attention, a central component of mindfulness meditation, can be conceived as becoming aware of one's thoughts and experiences, and being able to observe them as transient mental events. Here, we present a series of studies demonstrating the effects of applying this meta-cognitive perspective to one's spontaneous reward responses when encountering attractive stimuli. Taking a grounded cognition perspective, we argue that reward simulations in response to attractive stimuli contribute to appetitive behavior, and that motivational states and traits enhance these simulations. Directing mindful attention at these

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Section: Experiments 2: Mindful Attention and The Effects Of Hungermentioning

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The benefits of simply observing: Mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

Papies¹,

Pronk²,

Keesman³

et al. 2015

Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

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“…In successful dieters, such cues activate a long-term 'dieting' goal, whereas in unsuccessful dieters they activate the hedonic 'eating' goal. [120][121][122] Although these studies suggest that individuals who are able to control their eating show enhanced self-regulation, the malleability of self-regulatory capacities is debated and some researchers have argued that attempts to boost selfregulatory skills as a route to greater control over eating may be misplaced: 'Participants in the National Weight Control Registry who have demonstrated an impressive (and rare) ability to maintain a large weight loss, presumably are at the upper end of the distribution of obesity-prone individuals' ability to make long-term changes in their food intake and activity level. However, the fact that some people demonstrate such tight and prolonged control over their food intake, physical activity, and body weight does not mean that weight control professionals are able to instil this ability among those who do not naturally possess it (p 52S).'…”

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Dietary restraint and self-regulation in eating behavior

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Self-control is generally viewed as highly desirable. In the eating behavior domain, however, the dominance of restraint theory has made the proposition that individuals should attempt to control their eating more controversial. This review discusses evidence from the dietary restraint literature and from studies of self-regulation processes to examine how far self-imposed control around food can be seen as beneficial for effective weight management. Epidemiological and field study evidence provides little support for the proposition that restrained eating causes disinhibited eating patterns. Restraint is often initiated as a response to weight gain, and the co-occurrence of disinhibited and restrained eating patterns on an individual level might better be explained by restraint acting as a marker for overeating tendencies. A sustained effort to monitor and control food intake characterizes successful long-term weight maintenance, suggesting that self-regulation in the eating domain is essential for those with a tendency to gain weight. Evidence from the literature on cognitive self-regulation suggests that there may be potential for people to learn to self-regulate better, both through training and controlled exposure techniques. Integration of the disparate theories of self-regulation is needed to identify the best ways of promoting self-regulation in order to support effective weight control, both in clinical and community settings.

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“…Yet, carefully prepared images of foods are likely to be more ecologically valid and may have different effects on how food perceptions are formed. Food images provide much richer information compared to words and as such they elicit physiological responses such as increased heart rate (Drobes et al 2001) and psychological responses such as increased motivation to eat (Ouwehand & Papies, 2010). Images then are more likely to reflect the situation (physiological and psychological) people will be in when they are forming food perceptions in in the real world.…”

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Associations between nutritional properties of food and consumer perceptions related to weight management

Buckland

Dalton

Stubbs

et al. 2015

Food Quality and Preference

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Consumer perceptions of food (for example, how filling or healthy) influence eating behaviour and appetite control. Therefore approaches to understand the global nutritional attributes of foods that predict the strength of consumer perceptions are of academic and commercial interest. The current research describes the development of a flexible platform for systematically mapping the global nutritional attributes of foods (both objective and perceived) to consumer perceptions of those foods. The platform consists of a database of standardised UK food images (currently n = 300), linked to a catalogue of detailed perceptual, nutritional, sensory, cost, and psychological informationThe platform also incorporates demographic and psychometric questionnaires to examine the importance of nutritional attributes on consumer perceptions within or between relevant target groups. In the current study, the platform was applied to a sample of dieting and non-dieting British men and women (n = 887) to examine the global attributes of a subset of foods (n = 75) and their association with successful weight management (i.e. supportive of weight loss, weight loss maintenance or prevention of weight gain). Generalised linear models identified energy density, cost (£/kcal), perceived energy content and satiating capacity as the main -management food. Additionally, pleasantness, and desire not to (over) eat were uniquely associated ; pleasantness was positively associated with weight management and desire to eat was negatively associated with weight management. Therefore, global nutritional attributes of foods can predict and distinguish the extent This platform will be extended to increase the variety of foods and specificity of nutritional attributes in the database suitable for a range of commercial, academic or clinical research applications.

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Eat it or beat it. The differential effects of food temptations on overweight and normal-weight restrained eaters

Cited by 65 publications

References 35 publications

The benefits of simply observing: Mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

The benefits of simply observing: Mindful attention modulates the link between motivation and behavior.

Dietary restraint and self-regulation in eating behavior

Associations between nutritional properties of food and consumer perceptions related to weight management

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