2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

Total research to prevent falling away from therapeutic program for obesity by psychological techniques

Research Project

Project/Area Number	21650201
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	Eating habits, studies on eating habits
Research Institution	Doshisha University
Principal Investigator	SATO Suguru 同志社大学, 心理学部, 教授 (90150557)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	AOYAMA Kenjiro 同志社大学, 心理学部, 教授 (50257789) HATA Toshimichi 同志社大学, 心理学部, 准教授 (50399044)
Project Period (FY)	2009 – 2011
Keywords	肥満 / 食行動 / ネガティブ感情
Research Abstract	In this study, it is hypothesized that the negative emotion would disturb the controlling of eating behavior. This procedure reduced the amount of snack intake after the lunch. The first study was done by Aoyam. In the experiment, participants were asked to input the contents of their lunch into their cell phones to facilitate their memory about the lunch. The second study was done by Hata. Using rats, it was examined the effect of the restriction of high-fat food and the enhancement of the sympathetic adrenal medullary(SAM) axis on the choice of high-fat food. It was shown that the choice of high-fat food increased following enhancement of the SAM axis irrespective of the experience of food restriction. The third study was done by Sato. It was reported that negative emotion disturbed the controlling of body weight reducing.