Sensitization of the reinforcing value of food: a novel risk factor for overweight in adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

The relative reinforcing value (RRV) of food is associated with increased energy intake and obesity and increases in RRV of food after repeated intake (sensitization) are related cross-sectionally and prospectively to higher BMI in adults. We examined the factors, such as delay discounting (DD), associated with sensitization of RRV to high energy density (HED) and low energy density (LED) food and how sensitization relates to zBMI in adolescents. We hypothesized that sensitization to HED food would be positively associated with zBMI, that sensitization to LED food would be negatively associated with zBMI, that DD would be associated with HED sensitization, and that LED sensitization and DD would moderate the relationships between HED sensitization and zBMI

SUBMITTER: Temple JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7484379 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature