(2007) in which contextual cues related to food intake elicited higher consumption than an altemative context which had never been paired with food; secondly, to examine whether the
caloric density of food had an effect on the cue-potentiated eating.
They avoided fast food restaurants that serve high
caloric density food.
The main difference between a puppy-growth diet and an adult-maintenance diet is that the commercially offered food for younger dogs is higher in
caloric density, protein content and minerals than adult food.
Provide salty, crunchy, sweet examples and volumetric foods that fill patients' bellies with a low
caloric density. Review restaurant eating.
She recommends eating your usual volume of food but cutting back on its
caloric density by replacing high-calorie ingredients with more fruits, vegetables and other whole foods.
"And we know that the more television a child watches, the more likely they are to eat while watching television and the more likely they are to eat the foods advertised on television, which tend to be foods of high
caloric density," Dr.
Since so many low-fat foods are actually very high in calories, she says, "it's legitimate to begin switching our focus from dietary fat to
caloric density." However, "to make these calculations you practically have to be a professional," she adds.
Decisions about food consumption and
caloric density are linked to a part of the brain called the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, an area that encodes the value of stimuli.
If the new food has a greater
caloric density than the old food, the cat will likely decrease his caloric intake accordingly.
