Eating a meal you choose yourself makes you eat more that day and a little less the next day — but then you go back to normal.

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Self-selected meal composition alters the relationship between same-day caloric intake and appetite scores in humans during a long-term ad-libitum feeding study

Cross-Sectional Study

Human

2023 Mar

After eating a meal of their choice, people ate more that day, but then ate a little less the next day, bringing their total calories back to normal—so the extra eating didn’t last.

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Self-selected meal composition alters the relationship between same-day caloric intake and appetite scores in humans during a long-term ad-libitum feeding study

Score: 51

DOI: 10.1007/s00394-022-03040-5

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