Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects

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CRC Press, Sep 14, 2009 - Medical - 643 pages
Presents the State-of-the-Art in Fat Taste TransductionA bite of cheese, a few potato chips, a delectable piece of bacon - a small taste of high-fat foods often draws you back for more. But why are fatty foods so appealing? Why do we crave them? Fat Detection: Taste, Texture, and Post Ingestive Effects covers the many factors responsible for the se

Contents

Chapter 1 Evolutionary Perspectives on Fat Ingestion and Metabolism in Humans
3
Chapter 2 Pathophysiology and Evolutionary Aspects of Dietary Fats and LongChain Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids across the Life Cycle
19
Taste of Fat From Detection to Behavior
81
Chapter 3 Gustatory Mechanisms for Fat Detection
83
Chapter 4 Role of the Gustatory System in Fatty Acid Detection in Rats
105
Chapter 5 Peripheral Gustatory Processing of Free Fatty Acids
123
Chapter 6 Orosensory Factors in Fat Detection
137
Is It a Primary?
167
Chapter 13 Control of Fat Intake by Striatal Opioids
323
Chapter 14 FatRich Food Palatability and Appetite Regulation
345
Chapter 15 Fats and Satiety
375
Genetic Factors Influencing Fat Preference and Metabolism
393
Chapter 16 Heritable Variation in Fat Preference
395
Chapter 17 Dietary Physiological and Genetic Impacts on Postprandial Lipid Metabolism
417
Lipids and Disease
461
Chapter 18 Control of Fatty Acid Intake and the Role of Essential Fatty Acids in Cognitive Function and Neurological Disorders
463

Neural Representations of Dietary Fat Stimuli
195
Chapter 8 Neural Representation of Fat Texture in the Mouth
197
Chapter 9 Advantageous Object Recognition for HighFat Food Images
225
Sensory Appeal of the FatRich Diet
241
Chapter 10 Preference for HighFat Food in Animals
243
Chapter 11 Human Perceptions and Preferences for FatRich Foods
265
Control of Food Intake as a Function of Fat
293
Chapter 12 Oral and Postoral Determinants of Dietary Fat Appetite
295
Chapter 19 What Is the Link between Docosahexaenoic Acid Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimers Disease in the Elderly?
485
Chapter 20 Hypothalamic Fatty Acid Sensing in the Normal and Disease States
507
Metabolic Disease
533
The Case of Fat
561
Index
597
Back cover
619
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Jean-Pierre Montmayeur, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Dijon, FRANCE

Johannes le Coutre, Nestle Research Center, Lausanne, SWITZERLAND

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