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NutrInsight • Satiety: from appetite sciences to food application
3.2 What are the potential benefits of enhancing satiety?
Diets that contain whole grains, fruits and vegetables, that are relatively high in fibre and low in energy density, tend to promote satisfaction and satiety. The potential benefits associated with enhanced satiety include:
• Reduced opportunistic eating (in some consumers),
• Strengthening of weak internal satiety cues,
• The pleasure associated with lower energy foods without feeling “deprived”, • Reduced hunger dysphoria,
• Improved hunger management,
• Improved compliance with goal directed behaviours,
• Adjunct to achieving weight loss and reducing the risk of weight gain.
Figure 2 provides a schematic illustration of the potential routes to end-benefits from incorporation of more satiating foods within an overall dietary pattern. A key notion is that, in contrast to the single and simplistic notion that enhanced satiety benefits consumers by a direct effect on food intake, various routes exist through which satiety could indirectly lead to increased dietary control in general or improved success in meeting weight management goals. These effects have been studied using various methodologies.
Improved acceptance of lower-energy foods
Greater liking of satiating foods
Greater food ‘reward‘
Greater ease of dietary control (meeting desired goals, patterns choices)
Reduced hunger dysphoria
Consumption of more satiating individual foods or pattern of eating
Greater overall summed satiety effect for total diet
Improved quality of life and health outcomes
Less stimulus for ‘opportunistic‘ eating
Improved potential for achieving weight management goals
Better control of (reduced) energy intakes
Figure 2: Schematic illustration of the potential routes to end-benefits from incorporation of more satiating individual foods within an overall dietary pattern
Source: Hetherington et al., 2013
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