How palatable food disrupts appetite regulation

In this 2021 study, participants were randomized to a 12-week or 52-week behavioral weight management intervention or a brief self-help intervention. The objective was to determine if hedonic hunger decreases during this behavioral weight management program. Another target was to find out if hedonic hunger predicts BMI. The participants were UK-based adults, mostly with obesity […]

In this 2018 meta-analysis, Evers et al. (2018) planned to analyze the impact of emotions on eating in both healthy individuals and patients with eating disorders. The researchers gathered 56 experimental studies on the causal effect of emotions on eating behavior, and performed separate meta-analyses for negative and positive emotions. Also investigated was the degree […]