New study finds familiarity increases the fullness that children expect from snack foods
Monday, October 3, 2011 - 09:00
in Health & Medicine
New research, led by psychologists at the University of Bristol, has found that children who are familiar with a snack food will expect it to be more filling. This finding, published (online ahead of print) in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, is important because it reveals one way in which children over-consume snack foods and increase their risk of becoming overweight.