Booth, David A, Jarvandi, Soghra and Thibault, Louise (2012) Food after deprivation rewards the earlier eating. Appetite, 59 (3). pp. 790-795. ISSN 0195-6663

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Abstract

Food intake can be increased by learning to anticipate the omission of subsequent meals. We present here a new theory that such anticipatory eating depends on an associative process of instrumental reinforcement by the nutritional repletion that occurs when access to food is restored. Our evidence over the last decade from a smooth-brained omnivore has been that food after deprivation rewards intake even when those reinforced ingestive responses occur long before the physiological signals from renewed assimilation. Effects of food consumed after self-deprivation might therefore reward extra eating in human beings, through brain mechanisms that could operate outside awareness. That would have implications for efforts to reduce body weight. This food reward mechanism could be contributing to the failure of the dietary component of interventions on obesity within controlled trials of the management or prevention of disorders such as hypertension, atherosclerosis and type 2 diabetes.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Overeating; Food reward; Delayed reinforcement; Food deprivation; Skipping meals; Restraint breakdown; Obesity-related disease
Schools and Departments:	School of Psychology > Psychology
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Depositing User:	Catrina Hey
Date Deposited:	27 Oct 2014 11:37
Last Modified:	16 Sep 2017 19:20
URI:	http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/50734

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