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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150100105
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Western-style diet and impairments in food-intake control in humans. Animals fed a Western-style (W-S) diet high in saturated fat and added sugar rapidly develop cognitive impairments, which include disrupted food-intake control. This project aims to see if this also occurs in lean healthy people who eat a W-S diet. That is, are W-S diets associated with impaired cognition, and especially food-intake control, in adults and children, and is this caused by a W-S diet? Obesity is a major public health issue and the significance of this project lies in testing a new account of how overeating may first occur. The expected outcome aims to show that a W-S diet can disrupt various aspects of cognition in adults and children, including food-intake control, providing an entirely new basis to argue for a better diet.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 01-2015
End Date: 06-2020
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $307,000.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology) | Sensory Processes, Perception and Performance | Psychology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Behaviour and Health | Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences |
