What Should I Eat and Why? The Environmental, Genetic, and Behavioral Determinants of Food Choice: Summary from a Pennington Scientific Symposium.
Emily Qualls-CreekmoreKara L MarlattEsther AartsAnnadora Bruce-KellerTim S ChurchKarine ClémentJennifer O FisherPenny Gordon-LarsenChristopher D MorrisonHelen E RaybouldDonna H RyanPhilip R SchauerAlan C SpectorMaartje S SpetterGarret D StuberHans-Rudolf BerthoudEric RavussinPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2020)
This review details the proceedings of a Pennington Biomedical scientific symposium titled, "What Should I Eat and Why? The Environmental, Genetic, and Behavioral Determinants of Food Choice." The symposium was designed to review the literature about energy homeostasis, particularly related to food choice and feeding behaviors, from psychology to physiology. This review discusses the intrinsic determinants of food choice, including biological mechanisms (genetics), peripheral and central signals, brain correlates, and the potential role of the microbiome. This review also address the extrinsic determinants (environment) of food choice within our physical and social environments. Finally, this review reports the current treatment practices for the clinical management of eating-induced overweight and obesity. An improved understanding of these determinants will inform best practices for the clinical treatment and prevention of obesity. Strategies paired with systemic shifts in our public health policies and changes in our "obesogenic" environment will be most effective at attenuating the obesity epidemic.
Keyphrases
- public health
- human health
- healthcare
- type diabetes
- metabolic syndrome
- primary care
- insulin resistance
- physical activity
- mental health
- decision making
- risk assessment
- multiple sclerosis
- body mass index
- climate change
- brain injury
- resting state
- copy number
- functional connectivity
- skeletal muscle
- white matter
- drug induced
- stress induced