Female college freshmen were designated as either Carbohydrate Cravers or Mixed Snackers according to their responses to a survey of snacking patterns. In a between-groups design, their moods and their ratings of the desirability of various foods were assessed immediately before and two hours after the consumption of either a high-protein meal, a high-carbohydrate meal equal in calories to the protein meal, or a mixed carbohydrate-protein-fat meal that was higher in calories than the other two. Compared to Mixed Snackers, Carbohydrate Cravers showed a significant preference for high-carbohydrate foods over high-protein foods pre-meal, but the two groups did not differ significantly on pre-meal mood measures in a multivariate analysis of variance. They also did not differ significantly on pre-meal measures of hunger, dietary disinhibition, or dietary restraint. / On the post-meal measures, Carbohydrate Cravers did not differ significantly from Mixed Snackers on the mood measures nor on the food desirability ratings. Meal composition had no effect upon mood, but it did affect food ratings, albeit in unexpected ways: post-meal ratings of high-carbohydrate foods by subjects who had received the high-carbohydrate meal did not differ significantly from similar ratings of subjects who had received the other two meals, but ratings of protein foods by the high-carbohydrate meal subjects were significantly higher than similar ratings from the other two groups. It was speculated that the mostly liquid composition of the high-carbohydrate meal, and/or its lack of fat, may have made it less satisfying or satiating than the other two meals. / Results of this study are discussed in terms of their implications for two opposing theories of "Carbohydrate Craving". / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 52-03, Section: B, page: 1701. / Major Professor: Richard Hagen. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1991.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_78442 |
| Contributors | D'Agostino, Joseph Anthony., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 212 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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