期刊
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NUTRITION
卷 55, 期 4, 页码 1615-1622出版社
SPRINGER HEIDELBERG
DOI: 10.1007/s00394-015-0980-4
关键词
Food self-administration; High-fat diets; Reward; Two-bottle choice; Motivation; Obesity
资金
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad [SAF2011-25300, BFU2012-35353]
- Fundacion Universitaria San Pablo-CEU (Spain)
- UNED
- Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Cientifico e Tecnologico (Brasil)
Purpose Highly palatable foods behave as appetitive rein-forcers and tend to be consumed compulsively. Nevertheless, the motivation for this kind of diets in experimental diet-induced obesity models has not been well established. Our hypothesis is that obesity caused by a regular consumption of high-fat diet (HFD) occurs concomitantly with the inhibition of food reward. The ultimate goal of our study was to further analyze the extent to which the perception of food as an appetitive reinforcer is a necessary condition for obesity. Methods We have evaluated the influence of HFD on operant food self-administration (FSA) during a whole light-dark (12-12-h) cycle in mice that consumed HFD either during 1, 4 or 8 weeks. The study has been complemented by a two-bottle free-choice assay between tap water and sweetened drinks. Results These data show that both 4- and 8-week HFD treatments induced a significant decrease in operant FSA rate. Moreover, HFD impaired the sweetened-conditioned flavor preference in the two-bottle choice assay. Conclusion Our results, showing a reduction in how hard an animal is willing to work for food reinforcers, provide evidence that chronic consumption of HFD negatively contributes to the incentive motivation to acquire food/drink reinforcers. We demonstrate that energy homeostasis imbalance triggered by HFD is associated with the inhibition of hedonic feeding.
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