Association between variants of neuromedin U gene and taste thresholds and food preferences in European children: Results from the IDEFICS study

Grippi, Claudio; Ahrens, Wolfgang; Buchecker, Kirsten; Chadjigeorgiou, Charalambos; Henauw, Stefaan De; Koni, Anna C.; Foraita, Ronja; Lissner, Lauren; Molnár, Denés; Moreno, Luís A.; Pitsiladis, Yannis; Reisch, Lucia A.; Russo, Paola; Siani, Alfonso; Veidebaum, Toomas; Iacoviello, Licia; Gianfagna, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2019.104376

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“…In adult pigs, glutamate administration to a standard diet reduced body fat weight and increased colonic short chain fatty acids [112]. In a human subsample of a multicentric European cohort investigating risk factors associated with childhood obesity, authors studied food preference and anthropometrics in 1839 randomly selected children [113]. Preference for the umami flavor, induced by 1% monosodium glutamate addition to high fat crackers correlated with lower BMI z-score, lower arm circumference and lower fat mass.…”

Section: Glutamate As Another Potential Treatment For Obesitymentioning

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Protein, amino acids and obesity treatment

Simonson

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Guillet

2020

Rev Endocr Metab Disord

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Dietary proteins have been used for years to treat obesity. Body weight loss is beneficial when it concerns fat mass, but loss of fat free massespecially muscle might be detrimental. This occurs because protein breakdown predominates over synthesis, thus administering anabolic dietary compounds like proteins might counter fat free mass loss while allowing for fat mass loss. Indeed, varying the quantity of proteins will decrease muscle anabolic response and increase hyperphagia in rodents fed a low protein diet; but it will favor lean mass maintenance and promote satiety, in certain age groups of humans fed a high protein diet. Beyond protein quantity, protein source is an important metabolic regulator: whey protein and plant based diets exercize favorable effects on the risk of developing obesity, body composition, metabolic parameters or fat free mass preservation of obese patients. Specific amino-acids like branched chain amino acids (BCAA), methionine, tryptophan and its metabolites, and glutamate can also positively influence parameters and complications of obesity especially in rodent models, with less studies translating this in humans. Tuning the quality and quantity of proteins or even specific amino-acids can thus be seen as a potential therapeutic intervention on the body composition, metabolic syndrome parameters and appetite regulation of obese patients. Since these effects vary across age groups and much of the data comes from murine models, long-term prospective studies modulating proteins and amino acids in the human diet are needed.

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Section: Glutamate As Another Potential Treatment For Obesitymentioning

confidence: 99%