%0 Journal Article
%T No rapid recovery of sensory-specific satiety in obese women
%A Remco C Havermans
%A Anne Roefs
%A Chantal Nederkoorn
%A Anita Jansen
%J Flavour
%D 2012
%I BioMed Central
%R 10.1186/2044-7248-1-5
%X Participants drank several servings of a test drink to induce SSS. Relative liking of the drink was determined before, directly after and 20 minutes after the repeated consumption of the test drink by means of subjective ratings for the pleasure of the taste, smell and mouth-feel of a test drink and a control drink. Relative liking for the test drink decreased in the normal-weight and obese women (indicative of SSS), but no suggestion of any recovery from SSS after the 20-minute interval was found for either group.There is no evidence to suggest that SSS and its recovery rate differs to any relevant degree between obese and normal-weight people.Sensory-specific satiety (SSS) refers to the decrease in pleasure derived from the sensory characteristics of a food or drink that has been consumed compared with unconsumed foods or drinks [1,2]. It is generally thought to have a double function, namely, to constrain meal intake and to promote a varied diet [3]. Interestingly, SSS does not seem to depend on any post-ingestive feedback. Indeed, merely chewing a food [4], smelling a drink [5] or imagining eating a food [6] for about as long it would normally take actually to consume the food or drink suffices to produce a strong sense of satiation for that particular food.Considering that SSS plays an important role in eating behavior (that is, food intake and food choice) it could be assumed that individual differences in eating behavior are associated with such differences in the propensity for SSS. Because weight gain and obesity can be ascribed to a positive energy balance due to caloric overconsumption [7,8], it would be expected that obese people are less likely to experience SSS. Indeed, in a series of three experiments, Hetherington and Rolls [9] found that anorexic and non-dieting normal-weight control participants clearly demonstrated SSS, whereas bulimic and overweight participants did not. Further, obese people tend to show less rapid salivary habituation to palata
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