Food rejection is associated with tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children.

Food rejections are common in young children and often include healthy foods, hereby impairing the quality of their diet. Previous studies indicate that food texture may play a role in children's food preferences and intake. Building on these findings, as part of an ongoing longitudinal project, the present study investigated whether food rejection is related to tactile sensitivity and tactile appreciation in three-year-old children.

Taste and smell are associated with dietary intake, eating behavior, nutritional status, and health-related quality of life in children with cancer.

Background & Aims: Smell and taste changes are frequently reported bothersome treatment symptoms during treatment for childhood cancer and assumed to influence outcomes such as food intake. Since nutritional status of children with cancer is already vulnerable, any detrimental effects on food intake should be prevented. Therefore, understanding the exact relationship between chemosensory changes and dietary intake, eating behavior, and other domains such as health-related quality of life (HRQoL), is important for improving outcomes.

Personalization in mitigating food waste and costs in hospitalization.

Background: Organization of food services within hospitals has been identified as a determinant of hospitalized patients' nutritional intake and associated food waste. Whereas hospital food service systems in the Netherlands traditionally consist of 3 fixed mealtimes each day, we recently implemented a new 3-channel concept that provides patients the opportunity to order extra meals or snacks in-between their 3 main mealtimes or even have dinner with their visitors in a bistro located on their ward.

Aim: This study investigates the impact of transitioning from a traditional paper-based to a patient-centered, digital hospital food service system on food waste production patterns and its associated financial implications.

Factors affecting public acceptance of healthy lifestyle nudges.

In two online vignette studies, we investigated the effects of healthy lifestyle nudging and pricing interventions in two different contexts: a supermarket (Study 1) and a train station (Study 2). In Study 1 (N = 318) participants were randomly assigned to evaluate one of eight interventions described in a vignette and designed to either encourage healthier food choices or discourage unhealthy food choices in a supermarket setting. Two interventions comprised a small financial incentive to either encourage a healthy food choice or discourage an unhealthy food choice, but the other six interventions were nudges conceived to specifically impact agency, self-constitution or freedom of choice (three different aspects of autonomy).

Exploring within-meal variety to promote appeal of home-cooked meals in older adults.

Undernutrition is highly prevalent in older adults and poses a major threat to physical and mental wellbeing. To foster healthy eating (and healthy aging), strategies are needed to improve dietary quality of older adults. In this study, the feasibility of increasing food variety in home-cooked meals is explored as strategy to promote meat and vegetable consumption in community dwelling older adults.

A longitudinal evaluation of smell and taste function in children with cancer during and after treatment with chemotherapy.

Smell and taste changes are bothersome treatment symptoms interfering with food intake. It remains unclear how and when children with cancer experience such changes during chemotherapy, and if the symptoms resolve after treatment. In this longitudinal study, we measured smell and taste function of 94 childhood cancer patients treated for hematological, solid, or brain malignancies.

Chemosensory function and food perception is affected in COPD, but unrelated to sarcopenia risk.

Background & Aims: Patients with advanced COPD often have difficulty maintaining sufficient dietary intake. Chemosensory function influences food choice and intake but is often overlooked in dietary assessment and intervention strategies. This study aimed to assess differences in chemosensory function and hedonic evaluation of food between patients with COPD and age- and gender-matched healthy controls.

Recovery to normal vital functions and acid-base status after a severe trauma in Level I versus Level II Trauma Centres.

Purpose: In the Netherlands, approximately 70% of severely injured patients (ISS ≥ 16) are transported directly to a Level I trauma center. This study compared the time needed to return to normal vital parameters and normal acid-base status in severely injured patients and some in-hospital processes in Level I versus Level II trauma centers.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study included all adult severely injured patients or adult trauma patients admitted to the intensive care unit between 2015 and 2020 in a Dutch trauma region.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy treatment as usual in people with bipolar disorder: A multicentre, randomised controlled trial.

Background: Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) seems a promising intervention for bipolar disorder (BD), but there is a lack of randomised controlled trials (RCT) investigating this. The purpose of this multicentre, evaluator blinded RCT was to investigate the added value of MBCT to treatment as usual (TAU) in BD up to 15 months follow-up (NCT03507647).

Methods: A total of 144 participants with BD type I and II were randomised to MBCT + TAU ( = 72) and TAU ( = 72).

Child characteristic correlates of food rejection in preschool children: A narrative review.

Dietary habits formed in early childhood are key for establishing a healthy diet later in life. Picky eating and food neophobia - the two main forms of food rejection in young children - form an important barricade to establishing such healthy habits. Understanding these types of food rejection is thus essential for promoting healthy eating behaviour in both children and adults.

Child-reported vegetable neophobia is associated with risk avoidance for distaste in children aged 4-15 years.

Children who are food neophobic and/or picky eaters often refuse intake of especially fruits and vegetables, thereby narrowing their dietary variety and impairing the quality of their food intake. In this preregistered study, we investigated whether picky eating and food neophobia are related to bitter taste sensitivity (PROP taster status) and risk avoidance for distaste. A total of 367 children (201 girls; M age = 8.

How Different Dimensions Shape the Definition of Meat Alternative Products: A Scoping Review of Evidence between 2000 and 2021.

Consumer awareness of meat-associated health and environmental risks is increasing and motivates a shift toward consuming meat alternatives. This is also reflected in efforts invested in studying meat alternatives from the perspective of nutritional, environmental, and consumer sciences. Despite shared research interest, these studies cannot be readily compared and interpreted because there is no clear consensus on what meat alternatives are.

Fake meat or meat with benefits? How Dutch consumers perceive health and nutritional value of plant-based meat alternatives.

Animal agriculture has a large impact on the environment. Hence, there is an increasing demand for meat alternatives - more sustainably produced plant-based products that replace meat as meal component. Demands for meat alternatives also seem to be fuelled by consumers' belief that meat alternatives are healthier than meat products.

Implementing 3D fluoroscopy in the management of tibial plateau fractures: Shorter hospitalization and decline in revision surgery, but increase in the duration of surgery and radiation exposure.

Background: Intraoperative 3D fluoroscopy (3DRX) is increasingly used in fracture management instead of conventional fluoroscopy (RX), but its effect on the treatment and outcome of tibial plateau fractures (TFs) is not well known. This study aims to evaluate whether the use of 3DRX in the treatment of tibial plateau fractures reduces the number of revision surgeries.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study includes all patients who underwent surgical treatment for TF in a single center from 2014 to 2018.

Comparing Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System Computer Adaptive Testing With Existing Measures After Operative Interventions for Extremity Fractures.

Introduction: Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System (PROMIS) enables the use of computer adaptive testing (CAT). The aim of this prospective cohort study was to compare the most commonly used disease-specific instruments with PROMIS CAT questionnaires in patients with trauma.

Methods: All patients with trauma (ages 18-75) who underwent an operative intervention for an extremity fracture between June 1, 2018, and June 30, 2019, were included.

Promoting vegetable acceptance in toddlers using a contingency management program: A cluster randomised trial.

Children learn to accept novel foods by repeated exposure to these foods. In the current study, we investigated in toddlers whether a contingency management program (The Vegetable Box), comprising repeated vegetable taste exposure with contingent non-food rewards, is particularly potent at increasing recognition of and willingness to try vegetables. A total of 598 children (1-4 years old) recruited at 26 different day-care centres in the Netherlands took part.

The impact of changes in taste, smell, and eating behavior in children with cancer undergoing chemotherapy: A qualitative study.

Background And Aims: Taste changes are the third most common bothersome symptom during treatment in children with cancer. However, it is still unclear what the essence of these taste changes are, to what degree concomitant changes in sense of smell qualify this bothersome treatment symptom and how much of an impact these changes have on the life of children with cancer. The aim of this study was to explore characteristics of both taste and smell changes and to gain insight into the impact of these changes in children with cancer receiving chemotherapy.

Associations between outcome variables of nutritional screening methods and systemic treatment tolerance in patients with colorectal cancer: A systematic review.

Introduction: Multiple screening methods for malnutrition are available, but a systematic review of evidence in patients with colorectal cancer (CRC) is lacking. The aim of this study is to systematically investigate which outcome variables of nutritional screening methods are associated with treatment tolerance in patients with CRC.

Material And Methods: A systematic review was performed with respect to outcome variables of nutritional screening methods and their association with systemic treatment tolerance in patients with CRC.

Does labelling a food as 'light' vs. 'filling' influence intake and sensory-specific satiation?

Although several studies have investigated the influence of nutrition labelling on food intake, the effect of labels indicating a food's satiating power on food intake and sensory-specific satiation (SSS) is poorly understood. We investigated whether providing information about the satiating power of a meal affects intake and SSS. Participants (19 men and 18 women) consumed the same test meal of pasta salad ad libitum on two occasions, once described as 'light' and once as 'filling'.

Taste function in children: normative values and associated factors.

Background: Although less frequent than in adults, taste loss also occurs in childhood. "Taste Strips" are frequently used for diagnosing taste dysfunction; however, normative values are lacking for children. In this study, we will create normative values for the "Taste Strips" in children.

Prediction of recovery in trauma patients using Latent Markov models.

Purpose: Patients' expectations during recovery after a trauma can affect the recovery. The aim of the present study was to identify different physical recovery trajectories based on Latent Markov Models (LMMs) and predict these recovery states based on individual patient characteristics.

Methods: The data of a cohort of adult trauma patients until the age of 75 years with a length of hospital stay of 3 days and more were derived from the Brabant Injury Outcome Surveillance (BIOS) study.

Adolescent's Willingness to Adopt a More Plant-Based Diet: A Theory-Based Interview Study.

A plant-based diet is more sustainable, and research suggests that adolescents obtain health benefits from adopting a more plant-based diet (e.g., improved weight control, increased cardiovascular health).

The impact of the nutri-score on food choice: A choice experiment in a Dutch supermarket.

Front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels are placed on products to help consumers make healthy food choices. A lab-in-field experiment was conducted to test the effectiveness of two FOP labels in promoting healthy food choices among Dutch consumers, and to examine whether dieters and health conscious shoppers are more likely to use the FOP labels. In addition, it was examined whether the placement of relatively "good" FOP label scores on products might inadvertently lead to increases in serving sizes.

Taste Dysfunction in Children-A Clinical Perspective and Review of Assessment Methods.

Taste dysfunction has been associated with aging and is therefore thought to be less common in children. However, children can face medical conditions influencing their taste function. Measuring and understanding taste dysfunction in children may foster the development of treatments/interventions mitigating the detrimental effects of taste dysfunction on children's appetite and quality of life.