Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Executive functioning and dietary intake: Neurocognitive correlates of fruit, vegetable, and saturated fat intake in adults with obesity

For your doctor and nutritionist to use to come up with diet protocols. For stroke prevention, stroke recovery, high blood pressure relief, dementia prevention. All 4 are needed; Why the hell has your doctor done nothing?

Executive functioning and dietary intake: Neurocognitive correlates of fruit, vegetable, and saturated fat intake in adults with obesity

Appetite, 01/24/2017
In the current study, researchers inspected the relationship between executive functioning and consumption of saturated fat, fruits, and vegetables in an overweight/obese sample utilizing behavioral measures of executive function and dietary recall. Further research is required to decide causality as diet and executive functioning may bidirectionally impact each other.
  • Total 190 overweight and obese adults finished neuropsychological evaluations measuring intelligence, planning ability, and inhibitory control followed by 3 dietary recall evaluations within a month prior to beginning a behavioral weight loss treatment program.
  • Inhibitory control and two of the three indices of planning each independently significantly predicted fruit and vegetable intake such that those with better inhibition and planning ability consumed more fruits and vegetables.
  • No connection was found between executive functioning and saturated fat intake.
  • Results increase understanding of how executive functioning influences eating behavior in overweight and obese adults, and recommend the significance of including executive functioning training components in dietary interventions for those with obesity.
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