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Memory can be said to deeply connected to our tastes in food -- what we've liked or disliked in the past creates associations that help trigger our current eating behaviors. In what might be seen as a scientific version of the beginning of Proust's famous memory based food trigger (just substitute french fries for madeleines), a recent study that was part of The National Institutes of Health Obesity-Related Behavioral Intervention Trials RFA program indicated that healthy dietary habits may be initiated by a cue that is linked to the eating behaviors in memory, and these cue-behavior links could be important targets for interventions that promote healthy eating. The study, coauthored by CGU's School of Health Professor Jerry Grenard, tried to identify physical, social, and intrapersonal cues that were associated with the consumption of sweetened beverages and sweet and salty snacks by having participants use PDA devices to periodically answer brief surveys about their eating behaviors. Results indicated that having a sweet drink or unhealthy snack was associated with school, friends, loneliness, boredom, food cravings, exercise, and food cues. Professor Grenard will discuss the study and the intervention being developed to help disrupt these unhealthy cue-behavior links and create new and stronger links for healthy alternatives.
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