ArticlePloS one2013
Public views on food addiction and obesity: implications for policy and treatment.
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- Factors increasing the risk for food addiction in Ecuadorian students.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Characteristics of individuals seeking addictive eating treatment.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- Health Professionals' and Health Professional Trainees' Views on Addictive Eating Behaviours: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Nutrients · 2020Article
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- Public support for government regulatory interventions for overweight and obesity in Australia.BMC public health · 2018Article
- Influence of Being Embodied in an Obese Virtual Body on Shopping Behavior and Products Perception in VR.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2018Article
- Food for Thought: Reward Mechanisms and Hedonic Overeating in Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2017Review
- Food addiction and obesity: unnecessary medicalization of hedonic overeating.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2017Review
- Food addiction as a proxy for eating disorder and obesity severity, trauma history, PTSD symptoms, and comorbidity.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2017Review
- Incorporating food addiction into disordered eating: the disordered eating food addiction nutrition guide (DEFANG).Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2017Review
- Food Addiction Beliefs Amongst the Lay Public: What Are the Consequences for Eating Behaviour?Current addiction reports · 2017Review
- Believing in food addiction: Helpful or counterproductive for eating behavior?Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2016Article
- What Is Culinary Medicine and What Does It Do?Population health management · 2016Article
- Belief in Food Addiction and Obesity-Related Policy Support.PloS one · 2016Article
- Back by Popular Demand: A Narrative Review on the History of Food Addiction Research.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2015Review
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Abstract
backgroundAccording to their advocates, neurobiological explanations of overeating, or "food addiction", have the potential to impact public understanding and treatment of obesity. In this study, we examine the public's acceptance of the concept of food addiction as an explanation of overeating and assess its effects upon their attitudes toward obese persons and the treatment of obesity. METHODS AND
findingsWe conducted an online survey of 479 adults from the US (n = 215) and Australia (n = 264). There was substantial support for the idea of food addiction, particularly among obese participants. Over half favoured treating obesity as a type of addiction. Psychotherapy was believed to be the most effective treatment and educational and support programs were the preferred policies to address food addiction. There was very little support for increasing taxes on obesogenic foods. Despite the strong support for seeing obesity as a form of addiction, respondents still saw obesity as primarily the result of personal choices and emphasized the need for individuals to take responsibility for their eating.
conclusionsOur sample of the general public strongly supported the idea of obesity as a form of food addiction; but this did not translate into support of clinical and public health policies that experts believe are most likely to reduce the prevalence of obesity. The reasons for the apparent disjunction between support for food addiction and a strong emphasis on personal choice for weight warrant further examination.
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