Pedersen, H, Beaulieu, K orcid.org/0000-0001-8926-6953, Finlayson, G orcid.org/0000-0002-5620-2256 et al. (6 more authors) (2022) Food Reward after a Traditional Inuit or a Westernised Diet in an Inuit Population in Greenland. Nutrients, 14 (3). 561. ISSN 2072-6643
Abstract
The food availability and dietary behaviours in Greenland have changed with increasing Westernisation. Food reward is an important driver of food choice and intake, which has not previously been explored in the Arctic population. The aim of this study was to explore differences in food reward after a four-week intervention period with a traditional Inuit diet (TID) or Westernised diet (WD) in Inuit populations in Northern and Western Greenland. This cross-sectional analysis included 44 adults (n = 20 after TID and n = 24 after WD). We assessed the food reward components, explicit liking and implicit wanting, using the Leeds Food Preference Questionnaire under standardised conditions 60 min after drinking a glucose drink as part of an oral glucose tolerance test after four weeks following a TID or WD. The food intake was assessed using food frequency questionnaires. The intervention groups differed only in implicit wanting for high-fat sweet foods, with higher implicit wanting among the participants following TID compared to WD. Both groups had lower explicit liking and implicit wanting for sweet relative to savoury foods and for high-fat relative to low-fat foods. This exploratory study can guide future studies in Inuit populations to include measures of food reward to better understand food intake in the Arctic.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2022 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | food reward; wanting; liking; Inuit; diet; food intake |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number MRC (Medical Research Council) MR/V005804/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 09 Feb 2022 09:57 |
Last Modified: | 09 Feb 2022 09:57 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | MDPI |
Identification Number: | 10.3390/nu14030561 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:183346 |