Food Reward: a Dominant Factor in Obesity, Part IV

What is Food Reward?

After reading comments on my recent posts, I realized I need to do a better job of defining the term "food reward".� I'm going to take a moment to do that here.� Reward is a psychology term with a specific definition: "a process that reinforces behavior" (1).� Rewarding food is not the same thing as food that tastes good, although they often occur together.�

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This post was written by Stephan Guyenet for Whole Health Source.

Source: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/2011/05/food-reward-dominant-factor-in-obesity_26.html

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