They mostly attribute the cause of overweight and obesity to lowered sensitivity to internal hunger and satiety cues. Based on the assumption that human food consumption in food-rich environments is increasingly driven by pleasure rather than need for calories, a goal conflict theory of hedonic ...
We assessed the association of hedonic hunger, self-control (impulsivity and restraint), cognitive distortion (CD), and well-being with adiposity measures such as waist circumference (WC), waist-to-hip ratio (WHR), waist-to-height ratio (WHtR), body mass index (BMI), total body fat (TBF)...
However, research also suggests that “hunger” can be intensely experienced even in the absence of physiological need (e.g., hedonic hunger that is the result of environmental cues or craving that is the consequence of palatable food intake) (Lowe & Butryn, 2007). As such, it is possible...
The hedonic treadmill suggests that we are relatively stable creatures and that our happiness levels don’t fluctuate over the long term.
Takeaways for Decision-Makers Too much of a good thing is never good. Think of ways to keep people in a state of permanent, slight hunger, and they will love you for it. What people think they want isn’t always what will make them happiest.Getting the right balance through the limitin...
Nutrients and behaviour: Research strategies for the investigation of taste characteristics, food preferences, hunger sensations and eating patterns in man Some alternative procedures allow the assessment of particular aspects of feeding behaviour, (e.g. food or nutrient choice), and of the relationships...
The ‘incentive salience theory’ of reward has provided a valuable framework for more than a decade for investigating the role of food hedonics in the context of appetitive behavior in humans and animals [13,14]. This theory postulates that reward is not a unitary process, but comprises an ...
given conditions might also be gauged using mobile eye-tracking with ‘real’ consumers in an actual supermarket, monitoring their relative visual attention for certain (palatable) target foods while taking into account their reported hunger levels, and registering the actual monetary amount spent on ...
Early theories of overweight and obesity (psychosomatic theory, externality theory, and boundary model of eating) assume that individuals with obesity overeat because their ability to recognize internal hunger and satiation cues is impaired. According to the boundary model of eating, this reduced ...
In a similar vein, Cannon (1934) directed our attention to the sensations of hunger and thirst, arising as his experiments indicated from local changes in the stomach and throat. These theories put the emphasis on the role of peripheral factors and concerned themselves with the sensations or ...