Food intake is a regulated system. Afferent signals provide information to the central nervous system, which is the centre for the control of satiety or food seeking. Such signals can begin even before food is ingested through visual, auditory and olfactory stimuli. One of the recent interesting findings is the demonstration that there are selective fatty acid taste receptors on the tongue of r...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of television food advertising on children's food intake, specifically whether childhood obesity is related to a greater susceptibility to food promotion. DESIGN The study was a within-subject, counterbalanced design. The children were tested on two occasions separated by two weeks. One condition involved the children viewing food advertisements followed by...

PURPOSE To compare (1) fluid, food and nutrient intake obtained with a paper versus an online version of a 7-day food record and (2) user's acceptability of both versions of the food record. METHODS A cross-over study was carried out in 2010 in France. A total of 246 participants aged 18-60 years reported their food and fluid intake using both versions of the 7-day food record, separated by a...

Nine well-motivated adults, knowledgeable about nutrition, kept food records, saved food portions equal to what had been eaten, and collected 24-hour urine samples for 3 consecutive days. Estimates of sodium and potassium intake were calculated from food table analyses of written food records and from flame photometric analyses of food portions. For each subject the mean of the estimates for ea...

UNLABELLED Research on emotions as a trigger for food intake has mainly been focused on the role of negative emotions. In the present studies the role of positive emotions as a trigger for food intake is investigated in a sample of healthy participants with a normal weight. Two laboratory studies were conducted in which positive emotions or no emotions were induced (Study 1) or in addition nega...

background: stroke is one of the most common causes of life‑threatening disabilities and death around the world. mortality rate is going to be doubled by 2030 in the middle east countries. prevention is a cost‑effective approach to decrease risk of stroke. the present study assessed the relationship between dairy intake and stroke risk. methods: this hospital‑based case‑control study was direct...

INTRODUCTION Biomarkers are a good choice to be used in the validation of food frequency questionnaire due to the independence of their random errors. OBJECTIVE To assess the validity of the potassium and sodium intake estimated using the Food Frequency Questionnaire ELSA-Brasil. SUBJECTS/METHODS A subsample of participants in the ELSA-Brasil cohort was included in this study in 2009. Sodiu...