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How we evaluate our food: Mapping brain regions involved in evaluating calories, taste intensity and pleasantness.

Completed
Conditions
eetgedrag
eating behaviour
Registration Number
NL-OMON42737
Lead Sponsor
Wageningen Universiteit
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Completed
Sex
Not specified
Target Recruitment
26
Inclusion Criteria

-Gender: female
-Age: 18-35 year
-BMI: 18.5 - 25.0 kg/m2
-Healthy (as judged by the participant)
-Being right handed

Exclusion Criteria

-Restraint eating (women: score > 2.80)
-Lack of appetite
-Having difficulties with tasting, smelling, swallowing or eating
-Usage of an energy restricted diet during the last two months (preceding the screening session)
-Weight loss or weight gain of 5 kg or more during two months (preceding the screening session)
-Stomach or bowel diseases
-Diabetes, thyroid disease, kidney disease and other chronical disorders
-Having epilepsy or other neurological disorders
-Having claustrophobia, schizophrenia or another mental illness
-Usage of daily medication other than oral contraceptives, paracetamol or H1-antihistaminergic drugs
-Pregnancy during the last 6 months, having the intention to become pregnant or lactating
-Smoking on average more than one cigarette/cigar a day
-Being allergic/intolerant for products under study
-Disliking the beverages under study
-Working or doing an internship/thesis at the Department of Human Nutrition (WUR)
-Current participation in other (medical) research (except the EetMeetWeet study)
-Having a history of or current alcohol consumption of on average more than 21 units per week
-Having a contra-indication to MRI scanning
-Having objections against being informed about incidental findings of pathology and against the general physician being informed about incidental findings of pathology
-Presence of non-removable piercings
-Presence of tattoos with iron pigments

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The main study parameter/endpoint is brain activation during tasting.</p><br>
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
<p>The secondary parameter/endpoint is ad libitum food intake. </p><br>
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