Vasiliki Iatridi

Oxford Brookes University · Department of Sport and Health Sciences

In oncological outpatient settings, patients often require nutritional support after they have developed malnutrition. A delayed dietetic referral can lead to increased difficulties in providing therapies and surgery, and to poorer patient outcomes. The audit described in this article aimed to assess the frequency and completeness of patient record...

Keywords: Sweet-Liking Phenotypes, Body Composition, Fat-Free Mass, Obesity Abstract: Legislation aimed at reducing sugar intake assumes that sweet-liking drives overconsumption. However, evidence that greater liking for sweet taste is associated with an unhealthier body size is mixed and complicated by relatively small samples, an overreliance on...

There are well known phenotypic differences in sweet-liking across individuals, but it remains unknown whether these are related to broader underlying differences in interoceptive abilities (abilities to sense the internal state of the body). Here, healthy women (N = 64) classified as sweet likers (SLs) or sweet dislikers (SDs) completed a bimodal...

Building on a series of recent studies that challenge the universality of sweet liking, here we review the evidence for multiple sweet-liking phenotypes which strongly suggest, humans fall into three hedonic response patterns: extreme sweet likers (ESL), where liking increases with sweetness, moderate sweet likers (MSL), who like moderate but not i...

Phenotypic differences in sweet-liking are well known, but how they relate to actual eating behaviour, and what causes these differences in liking, remains unclear. Here we first explored if sweet liking phenotypes (sweet likers, sweet dislikers, and moderate likers) differed in habitual intake of high fat sugar Western diets, with 244 healthy volu...

There are well known phenotypic differences in sweet-liking across individuals, but it remains unknown whether these are related to broader underlying differences in interoceptive abilities (abilities to sense the internal state of the body). Here, healthy women (N = 64) classified as sweet likers (SLs) or sweet dislikers (SDs) completed a bimodal...

Taste hedonics drive food choices, and food choices affect weight maintenance. Despite this, the idea that hyper-palatability of sweet foods is linked to obesity development has been controversial for decades. Here, we investigate whether interpersonal differences in sweet-liking are related to body composition. Healthy adults aged 18-34 years from...

Taste hedonics is a well-documented driver of food consumption. The role of sweetness in directing ingestive behavior is largely rooted in biology. One can then intuit that individual differences in sweet-liking may constitute an indicator of variations in the susceptibility to diet-related health outcomes. Despite half a century of research on swe...

For the full-scale review, please refer to 'Reconsidering the classification of sweet taste liker phenotypes: A methodological review', Food Qual. Prefer., (72), 56-76, 2019. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodqual.2018.09.001)

Human ingestive behavior depends on myriad factors, including both sensory and non-sensory determinants. Of the sensory determinants, sweet taste is a powerful stimulus and liking for sweetness is widely accepted as an innate human trait. However, the universality of sweet-liking has been challenged. Sub-groups exhibiting strong liking (sweet liker...

Background The aim of the present study was to identify indicators of malnutrition, as obtained by anthropometric measurements, that might be potential predictors of transplant outcomes.Methods One hundred and three patients receiving a graft from a living or a deceased donor were included in this prospective study. Body mass index (BMI) based on p...

To identify among a wide range of perinatal indices, as well as certain family sociodemographic and parental characteristics, those independently associated with insulin resistance (IR) in late childhood. A representative sample of 2195 Greek schoolchildren, aged 9-13 yr, was examined, and based on the biochemical indices collected IR was estimated...

Purpose: To identify lifestyle patterns associated with blood lipid levels in children. Methods: A representative sample of 2,043 schoolchildren (9-13 years) participated in a cross-sectional epidemiologic study conducted in 77 primary schools in four large regions in Greece. Dietary intakes, breakfast patterns and eating frequency, physical act...

To examine the accuracy of maternal ability to classify their children's weight status correctly using a verbal and a visual classification instrument and to detect significant correlates of maternal misperceptions. Cross-sectional study. Primary schools in four counties from north, west, central and south Greece. A representative sample of 1858 pr...