How communications that portray unhealthy food consumption reduce food intake among dieters

Since food cues exposure through smelling leads to increased appetite for foods similar in taste to that smell, Zoon et al. (2016) set out to test this phenomenon using sweet/savory taste, and to assess whether this effect extends to energy density (high/low) and is modulated by the hunger state. During this experiment, 29 healthy-weight females […]

While consuming diets high in sugar and fats lower taste sensations, alters food choices, and facilitates feeding, May et al. (2020) planned to find out how these changes influence eating by using a genetically tractable (modifiable) organism called D. melanogaster. The scientists monitored the activity of a specific set of neurons in the organism referred […]