Meal Enjoyment and Tolerance in Women and Men

Monrroy, Hugo; Pribić, Teodora; Galán, Carmen; Coira, Amparo; Amigó, Núria; Accarino, Anna; Correig, X.; Azpiroz, Fernando

doi:10.3390/nu11010119

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“…Ingestion of a gratifying meal induces both satiety and satisfaction, i.e., homeostatic and hedonic sensations increase in parallel. Nevertheless, this is true up to a certain limit when the relation overturns and increasing meal loads still increase satiety but with a gradual decrease in digestive well-being; the nadir is reached with large meals at the point of full satiation, which induces a uncomfortable fullness sensation [63].…”

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“…Recent proof-of-concept studies indicate that sex may play an important role, and showed that the response to the same meal is different in women and men. These studies showed that women enjoy and tolerate smaller meals than men, i.e., a meal that induces satisfactory satiety in men may induce aversive fullness sensation in women [63,66,74]. Conceivably, other constitutive characteristics may also play a role in the individual predisposition to respond to a meal, so that some individuals may be more gifted to appreciate and enjoy meals.…”

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Food, Eating, and the Gastrointestinal Tract

2020

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Food ingestion induces a metered response of the digestive system. Initially, the upper digestive system reacts to process and extract meal substrates. Later, meal residues not absorbed in the small bowel, pass into the colon and activate the metabolism of resident microbiota. Food consumption also induces sensations that arise before ingestion (e.g., anticipatory reward), during ingestion (e.g., gustation), and most importantly, after the meal (i.e., the postprandial experience). The postprandial experience involves homeostatic sensations (satiety, fullness) with a hedonic dimension (digestive well-being, mood). The factors that determine the postprandial experience are poorly understood, despite their potential role in personalized diets and healthy eating habits. Current data suggest that the characteristics of the meal (amount, palatability, composition), the activity of the digestive system (suited processing), and the receptivity of the eater (influenced by multiple conditioning factors) may be important in this context.

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“…In a previous study we evaluated the responses to a meal administered stepwise up to full satiation, and demonstrated that women enjoyed and tolerated lower meal loads than men [2]. However, the study design precluded gender comparisons of the postprandial response, due to the different meal loads administered.…”

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“…Hence, we compared the postprandial responses to a standard meal in women and men. Based on previous data [2], the meal load was established to induce a consistent homeostatic response with a positive hedonic dimension. To this purpose, we used an assorted, attractive meal at a load well below the level of tolerance previously established in both women and men [2].…”

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Biological Response to Meal Ingestion: Gender Differences

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In a previous study, we demonstrated that women enjoyed and tolerated lower meal loads than men. Hence, we hypothesized that with the same meal load, their postprandial response is more pronounced than in men. We performed a randomized parallel trial in 12 women and 12 men comparing the postprandial responses to a palatable comfort meal. We measured homeostatic sensations (hunger/satiety, fullness) and hedonic sensations (digestive well-being, mood) on 10 cm scales, vagal tone by heart ratio variability and the metabolomic profile before and after meal ingestion. Gender differences were analyzed by repeated measures ANCOVA. Overall (n = 24), ingestion of the probe meal induced satiation, fullness, digestive well-being and improved mood (main time-effect p ≤ 0.005 for all). Women exhibited a more intense sensory experience, specially more postprandial fullness, than men [main gender-effect F (1, 21) = 7.14; p = 0.014]; hedonic responses in women also tended to be stronger than in men. Women exhibited more pronounced effects on vagal tone [main gender-effect F (1, 21) = 5.5; p = 0.029] and a different lipoprotein response than men. In conclusion, our data indicate that gender influences the responses to meal ingestion, and these differences may explain the predisposition and higher incidence in women of meal-related functional disorders.

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“…Sex-related differences in the biological responses to food ingestion have been reported. Particularly, women experienced stronger postprandial sensations after a palatable meal, and were more susceptible to the influence of conditioning factors, such as the eating schedule [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. Sex is increasingly recognized as an important biological variable influencing the generalizability of biomedical research [ 10 ].…”

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Sex Differences and Commonalities in the Impact of a Palatable Meal on Thalamic and Insular Connectivity

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The neural mechanisms underlying subjective responses to meal ingestion remain incompletely understood. We previously showed in healthy men an increase in thalamocortical, and a decrease in insular-cortical connectivity in response to a palatable meal. As sex is increasingly recognized as an important biological variable, we aimed to evaluate sex differences and commonalities in the impact of a well-liked meal on thalamic and anterior insular connectivity in healthy individuals. Participants (20 women and 20 age-matched men) underwent resting-state magnetic resonance imaging (rsMRI) before and after ingesting a palatable meal. In general, the insula showed extensive postprandial reductions in connectivity with sensorimotor and prefrontal cortices, while the thalamus showed increases in connectivity with insular, frontal, and occipital cortices, in both women and men. However, reductions in insular connectivity were more prominent in men, and were related to changes in meal-related sensations (satiety and digestive well-being) in men only. In contrast, increases in thalamic connectivity were more prominent in women, and were related to changes in satiety and digestive well-being in women only. These results suggest that brain imaging may provide objective and sex-specific biomarkers of the subjective feelings associated with meal ingestion.

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Meal Enjoyment and Tolerance in Women and Men

Cited by 13 publications

References 33 publications

Food, Eating, and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Food, Eating, and the Gastrointestinal Tract

Biological Response to Meal Ingestion: Gender Differences

Sex Differences and Commonalities in the Impact of a Palatable Meal on Thalamic and Insular Connectivity

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