Food Preferences
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods.

12 Oct 2009 Animals eat rather than react to moderate pain. Here, we examined the behavioral, hedonic, and neural requirements for ingestion analgesia in ad libitum fed rats. Noxious heat-evoked withdrawals were similarly suppressed during self-initiated ... Read more...

Frequent consumption of certain fast foods may be associated with an enhanced preference for salt taste.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: Excessive exposure to high-salt foods may change the taste perception, which results in the overconsumption of sodium. The present study aimed to investigate the effects of liking or frequent eating of high-salt food on salt taste ... Read more...

Psyllium as a substitute for gluten in bread.

29 Sep 2009 Celiac disease is an antibody-mediated enteropathy that presents permanent intolerance to ingested gluten. Currently, only one kind of treatment is available: the complete dietary elimination of all sources of gluten. The aim of the present study ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Food Preferences'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Analgesia accompanying food consumption requires ingestion of hedonic foods. 12 Oct 2009
• Frequent consumption of certain fast foods may be associated with an enhanced preference for salt taste. 29 Sep 2009
• Psyllium as a substitute for gluten in bread. 29 Sep 2009
• Antidepressant actions of histone deacetylase inhibitors. 14 Sep 2009
• Role of olfaction in the conditioned sucrose preference of sweet-ageusic T1R3 knockout mice. 5 Sep 2009
• Work conditions and the food choice coping strategies of employed parents. 30 Aug 2009
• Predicting intentions to eat a healthful diet by college baseball players: applying the theory of planned behavior. 30 Aug 2009
• Determinants of low-fat eating behaviors among midlife African American women. 30 Aug 2009
• Acculturation and gender: influence on healthy dietary outcomes for Latino adolescents in California. 30 Aug 2009
• Competition affects food choice in women. 30 Aug 2009
• Stress-induced laboratory eating behavior in obese women with binge eating disorder. 30 Aug 2009
• Distributing free fresh fruit and vegetables at school: results of a pilot outcome evaluation. 30 Aug 2009
• Development and validation of a beverage and snack questionnaire for use in evaluation of school nutrition policies. 30 Aug 2009
• Obesity genes identified in genome-wide association studies are associated with adiposity measures and potentially with nutrient-specific food preference. 17 Aug 2009
• Downregulation of NR3A-containing NMDARs is required for synapse maturation and memory consolidation. 11 Aug 2009
• Using descriptive assessment in the treatment of bite acceptance and food refusal. 10 Aug 2009
• Linking peripheral taste processes to behavior. 8 Aug 2009
• The gourmet ape: evolution and human food preferences. 3 Aug 2009
• Catering for the athletes village at the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games: the role of sports dietitians. 30 Jul 2009
• Hessian fly (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae) interactions with barley, rice, and wheat seedlings. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Food Preferences'

Definition: The selection of one food over another.

Descriptor UI: D005518

Alternative terms: Food Preferences; Food Preference; Preference, Food; Preferences, Food; Food Selection; Food Selections; Selection, Food; Selections, Food;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; drug effects; physiology; radiation effects; ethics; ethnology; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.145.407.516;

History Note: 69

Technical Notes: human & animal