Sentences with phrase «than a food reward»

Rewards sent directly to the brain can be more effective than food rewards, Burwell said, because rats can be rewarded in the moment of desired performance, and they don't become satiated.

Moreover, the individual differences in the caudate responses indicate the potentially higher value of social than food reward for some dogs and may help to explain the apparent efficacy of social interaction in dog training.

If possible, treat your dog with something other than a food reward.

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There is nothing more rewarding than bringing food back, both figuratively and literally, from our travels.

«The consensus among our guests is that our food is a lot better than they expected, which is extremely rewarding to us.»

In the long run, food rewards or bribes usually create more problems than they solve.

On the one hand, you could argue that a restaurant voucher is better than a teacher simply handing out junk food rewards since, with a voucher, some intervening parental oversight is required.

By the teen years, they will be shoveling the neighbor's walk, building the neighbor a lawn border, sorting food at the food bank, picking up garbage on the river bank, and volunteering in the community for no other reward than the good feeling of making the world a better place to live.

Overall, the students probably get fewer than 15 or 20 individual pieces of whatever in a day and I have tried to move from sweets to crackers and cereals and intersperse other tangibles (blowing bubbles, etc.) between the food rewards.

I want to thank the reporter, Claudia Feldman, for taking time to speak with me about issues I — and most of you — care so much about: trying hard to feed our kids well in a less - than - healthy food environment; improving school food; and yes, my pet peeve of food in the classroom for birthday treats or performance rewards.

«Motivate your kids by rewarding them with something other than food,» Andersen recommends.

And that's just it — when kids feel that they have to eat one food in order to be rewarded with another food, they automatically associate the first food with «yucky, gross, or less desirable» and the dessert food as delicious and even more desirable than before, because your child needs to work for it now.

Cuomo spokesman Richard Azzopardi said Monday, «the governor's action will help lift more than 200,000 New Yorkers out of poverty and ends the backdoor corporate welfare that rewards fast food companies for paying sub-poverty wages.

The researchers think that, you know, the sweetness is producing a reward effect in the brain that's actually stronger than cocaine's reward effect; same kind of dopamine mechanism and the researchers just think this is something biological that the rats are saying, «Hey this is sweet, must be food, must be good for me.»

«Few things are more rewarding evolutionarily than calorie - dense food,» Bale told me a few days after presenting a seminar on the subject at last fall's Society for Neuroscience meeting in San Diego.

The scientists observed that dogs hardly interacted with the strangers and were not much more interested in trying to get the food reward than when this person was not there.

That was very different than anything that happened when animals were working for food rewards, where they always stopped when they were full.

The scans revealed that when praised, 13 of the dogs showed equal or greater levels of brain activity in the region that controls decision - making and signals rewards than when they received food, the scientists will report in an upcoming issue of Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience.

The ravens demonstrated self - control on par with great apes by opting for the tool, which eventually earned them a better food reward than the immediate treat.

When you change your eating and lifestyle habits for good and realize that being healthy truly is a way of life, you are rewarded with so many incredible benefits to your body — it becomes easier for you to lose weight, you're able to maintain a healthy weight without restricting food or resorting to liquids only or taking out major food groups (unless, of course, you have an allergy or intolerance), you feel increased and sustained energy throughout the day, your digestion becomes more regular, your mood is more elevated, you have control of your cravings rather than vice versa, and so, so much more.

The pleasure reward from these foods is greater than the one you'd get from real, whole foods.

NPR notes that the innate food reward system drives kids to eat more carbs than adults.

The assumption is that such a diet is fattening because there's something about eating a variety of foods, mostly junk foods, that is so rewarding or at least so less bland than a plain chow diet that both humans and animals get fat eating it.

One obvious interpretation is that overweight individuals are hungrier than lean individuals, and so they have a greater response to any food in their reward centers.

Kurt seems to have been more persuaded than I am by Stephan Guyenet's food reward hypothesis (which is, of course, not of Stephan's creation — it is the dominant perspective in the community of academic obesity researchers).

It would be hard to conceive of a diet lower in food reward than one with no food at all.

So I would phrase the goal of an anti-obesity diet as achieving satisfaction of the food reward system, rather than as reducing food reward; and would say that wheat, sugar, and seed oils are obesogenic because they fail to provide genuine food reward, and thus compel the acquisition of additional calories.

Looking back, all the diets I tried were much lower in food reward than the «regular» American diet with lots of sweets that kept calling to me!

There is nothing more rewarding than feeling the space that opens when my clients feel the freedom that comes from breaking through and letting go of debilitating stress, negative beliefs about themselves, and fear in taking action — be it around food and body or loving themselves and expressing their passions and purpose.

Supplementing with IPE suppressed food reward - related brain signals when the participants looked at images of food more than supplementing with inulin did.

Stay focused on eating whole raw healthy foods, exercising, releasing stress, and drinking plenty of water and you will enjoy the rewards of a healthier and thinner you for a lifetime rather than just a few months.

Donate money, gifts, food and (most rewarding) your time to those who need it more than you do.

Know when your body needs food and when it wants food, and find new ways to reward yourself other than with food.

Researchers have even found that leading by example and exposing your little to a particular food many times is more effective than a reward of cartoon stickers.

Dr. Mike Israetel talks about this in our latest ebook «Understanding Healthy Eating», «The Food Palatability Reward Hypothesis (FPRH) is another very fancy concept that boils down to a simple observation: people eat more tasty foods than more bland foods.

Since most Americans eat (or stop eating) for reasons other than «physiological» hunger or fullness [11], it is critical to extend these findings to explore the signals controlling food cravings and food reward.

Fructose and glucose look similar molecularly, but fructose is metabolized differently by the body and prompts the body to secrete less insulin than does glucose (insulin plays a role in telling the body to feel full and in dulling the reward the body gets from food).

Dealing with lively slimes makes for a much more engaging and entertaining gameplay than watching plants grow, and an instant return on your actions (feeding them food for plorts) makes the core loop more rewarding.

Todd: I would suggest this movie struck a chord because fashion is less the point (though I think looking at the film through the lens of food and fashion yields plenty of rewards) than it is the vehicle to talk about something Hollywood loves: the difficulty of being in a relationship with a demanding person.

She is knowledgeable about classical and operant conditioning and is skillful in using food, toys, activities, and other rewards, rather than force, to change behavior.

Regarding rewards, when the reward was food or time with another dog, the control dogs left the arena more quickly than the experimental dogs.

After a few repetitions, start to hold your hand out flat rather than pinching your fingers — repeat this sequence several times, giving your puppy food rewards when he responds correctly.

If your puppy stands up rather than lying down to get the food reward, simply return to the starting position and go through the whole sequence again beginning with the «Sit» command.

What you need in this case, are high value rewards, foods that your dog craves and that are worth more than anything that may be distracting him, squirrels and the neighbor's cat included.

Squirting it in his food couldn't be easier, and watching the reaction is more than rewarding.

We know that every dog will reach a point where it is placed in a situation where the distraction is more interesting to our dog than the high value food reward or toy reward that we have to offer.

As the pup learns the behavior, stop giving a food reward for less than exact responses, and reward only quick, well - performed responses.

In short, larger rabbits require more care, space, and food than smaller rabbits do, but owning them can be a rewarding experience, too.

Dog food that is only given as a reward is usually referred to as dog treats rather than dog food.

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