Tag — Diet Foods

At the Obesity Society meeting new research was presented that showed people who ate an apple about 15 minutes before lunch consumed almost 190 fewer calories than when they didn’t have the apple. [Read more →]

Feeding the kids diet food may condition them to overeat and gain weight according to new research published today in the journal Obesity. We instinctively match calorie intake with the body’s energy needs and we are conditioned to associate taste with calories ingested. However when children are fed diet versions of foods normally high in calories, this “taste conditioning process” gets short circuited causing them to overeat. [Read more →]