2.2. Participants
gastrointestinal symptoms, non-obese
Twelve, non-obese, non-dieting and weight-stable women (6 per group), without history of gastrointestinal symptoms were recruited by public advertising to participate in the study. For this pilot, proof-of-concept study, only women were included for the sake of homogeneity and because some data indicate that they are more susceptible to factors that modulate the postprandial experience than men [