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Discounting of Hyper-Palatable Food and Money: Associations with Food Addiction Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Delay discounting (DD), the tendency to prefer small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, is associated with health-risk behaviors. The study examined associations between DD for money and hyper-palatable foods (HPF) with food addiction (FA) symptoms among a general population sample.

Methods

Participants (N = 296) completed an adjusting DD task that consisted of a single-commodity condition with HPF as the reward (HPF now vs. HPF later) and cross-commodity conditions comparing money and HPF (money now vs. HPF later; HPF now vs. money later). The Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 was used to assess FA symptoms. Zero-inflated negative binomial regression models tested whether discounting of HPF and money was associated with FA symptoms.

Results

Findings indicated there were no significant associations between DD and FA symptoms in the single-commodity HPF condition (logit: OR = 1.02, p-value = 0.650; count: IRR = 1.04, p-value = 0.515). There were no significant associations among cross-commodity conditions comparing money now vs. HPF later (logit: OR = 0.96, p-value = 0.330; count: IRR = 1.02, p-value = 0.729) or conditions comparing HPF now vs. money later (logit: OR = 1.02, p-value = 0.682; count: IRR = 0.92, p-value = 0.128) and FA symptoms.

Conclusions

Discounting HPF may not be a key behavioral feature among individuals who endorse FA symptoms.

SUBMITTER: Bellitti JS

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10536694 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Discounting of Hyper-Palatable Food and Money: Associations with Food Addiction Symptoms.

Bellitti Joseph S JS Fazzino Tera L TL

Nutrients 20230916 18

<h4>Introduction</h4>Delay discounting (DD), the tendency to prefer small, immediate rewards over larger, delayed rewards, is associated with health-risk behaviors. The study examined associations between DD for money and hyper-palatable foods (HPF) with food addiction (FA) symptoms among a general population sample.<h4>Methods</h4>Participants (N = 296) completed an adjusting DD task that consisted of a single-commodity condition with HPF as the reward (HPF now vs. HPF later) and cross-commodit ...[more]

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Discounting of Hyper-Palatable Food and Money: Associations with Food Addiction Symptoms.

Introduction

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Discounting of Hyper-Palatable Food and Money: Associations with Food Addiction Symptoms.

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