Variability in children's eating response to portion size. A biobehavioral perspective

Super-size me: Portion size effects on young children's eating.

Large portions of energy-dense foods are believed to favor obesity-promoting eating behaviors in young children. The following review presents evidence on food portion size effects on children's eating behavior and eating regulation, with comparison of findings to adult studies of portion size. Individual differences in children's susceptibility to portion size, particularly associations with w...

Eating or Feeding Our Young: A Response to Recent Commentaries

A biobehavioral perspective of tumor biology.

Extract: The perspective that cancer may be causally linked to stress has a long history. In 200 AD, Galen proposed that melancholic women were more susceptible to cancer than women who were sanguine. Rigorous examinations of related observations have lagged over the ensuing centuries. More recently, epidemiologic studies have shown that psychologic and social characteristics (e.g., chronic str...

A brief mindfulness intervention reduces unhealthy eating when hungry, but not the portion size effect.

OBJECTIVE The present research examined the effects of a mindfulness-based intervention to foster healthy eating. Specifically, we tested whether a brief mindfulness manipulation can prevent the portion size effect, and reduce overeating on unhealthy snacks when hungry. METHODS 110 undergraduate participants (MAge=20.9±2.3; MBMI=22.3±2.5) were served a small or a large portion of chocolate ch...

Sensitivity to portion size of unhealthy foods