title: Dietary intervention promoting high intakes of fruits and vegetables: short-term effects on eating behaviors in overweight-obese postmenopausal women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To compare changes in eating behaviors in response to two dietary interventions: one focusing on restrictive messages to limit consumption of high-fat foods (LOFAT) and the other one based on non-restrictive messages to increase consumption of fruits and vegetables (HIFV).
  
  
  METHODS
  Sixty-eight overweight-obese postmenopausal women were randomly assigned to one of the two 6-month dietary interventions that included three group sessions and ten individual sessions with a dietitian. Anthropometric variables and eating behaviors were measured at baseline, 3months and 6months.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Body weight decreased significantly in both groups at 6months compared to baseline (LOFAT: -3.5±2.9kg; HIFV: -1.6±2.9kg). At 6months, dietary restraint score was higher in the LOFAT group compared to the HIFV group (12.7±4.2 vs 10.5±4.9; p<0.05). Disinhibition and hunger decreased significantly in the HIFV group after 6months while only hunger decreased in the LOFAT group.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  A weight loss approach based on increasing fruit and vegetable consumption leads to a significant weight loss and is associated with a decrease in disinhibition and hunger without any increase in dietary restraint.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, Laval University, Québec, Canada.
authors.forename: Annie
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lapointe
authors.forename: Véronique
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Provencher
authors.forename: S John
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Weisnagel
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bégin
authors.forename: Rosanne
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Blanchet
authors.forename: Andrée-Ann
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Dufour-Bouchard
authors.forename: Caroline
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Trudeau
authors.forename: Simone
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lemieux
mesh_terms: D004038:Diet, Reducing; D004435:Eating / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009765:Obesity / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D050177:Overweight / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000523:psychology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D017698:Postmenopause / Q000502:physiology / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014675:Vegetables