ReviewISRN obesity2013
From passive overeating to "food addiction": a spectrum of compulsion and severity.
Review in ISRN obesity, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 66 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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66 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 147 citations in OpenAlex.
- Relationship between Mental Health and Emotional Eating during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2022Pooled it
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- A Systematic Review of Obesity and Binge Eating Associated Impairment of the Cognitive Inhibition System.Frontiers in nutrition · 2021Pooled it
- The prevalence of food addiction as assessed by the Yale Food Addiction Scale: a systematic review.Nutrients · 2014Pooled it
- Alterations in reward network functional connectivity are associated with increased food addiction in obese individuals.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
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- Ecological Momentary Assessment Studies of Binge Eating in Non-Clinical Populations: A Scoping Review.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Using Best-Worst Scaling to explore the perceived addictiveness of foods by processing level: a cross-sectional study among higher education students in Belgium.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- The Impact of Fear of Missing out (FoMO) on Addictive Eating: A Moderated Mediation Model.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Sex and age effects on binge eating spectrum disorders in young adults: a path analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Food addiction and its associations with mental and physical health comorbidities and with quality of life in the general population.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Role of Binge Eating in a Sequential Mediation Model of Stress, Emotional Eating, and BMI.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Self-control, food choices, and affective well-being in daily life: an experience sampling study.Journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Psychological differences in food addiction and binge eating in a general Polish population.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Abstinence-based treatment of comorbid eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Food Addiction: Prevalence, Severity, and Impact on Vascular Stroke Risk Factors in a French Hospital-Based Sample.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Validity of the Addiction-like Eating Behavior Scale among Patients with Compulsive Eating.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Clinical Relevance of Food Addiction in Higher Weight Patients across the Binge Eating Spectrum.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Melanin-concentrating hormone attenuates the hedonic feeding induced by orexin-A in the ventral tegmental area of high-fat diet male mice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- A scoping review of emotion regulation and inhibition in emotional eating and binge-eating disorder: what about a continuum?Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
6 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
A psychobiological dimension of eating behaviour is proposed, which is anchored at the low end by energy intake that is relatively well matched to energy output and is reflected by a stable body mass index (BMI) in the healthy range. Further along the continuum are increasing degrees of overeating (and BMI) characterized by more severe and more compulsive ingestive behaviours. In light of the many similarities between chronic binge eating and drug abuse, several authorities have adopted the perspective that an apparent dependence on highly palatable food-accompanied by emotional and social distress-can be best conceptualized as an addiction disorder. Therefore, this review also considers the overlapping symptoms and characteristics of binge eating disorder (BED) and models of food addiction, both in preclinical animal studies and in human research. It also presents this work in the context of the modern and "toxic" food environment and therein the ubiquitous triggers for over-consumption. We complete the review by providing evidence that what we have come to call "food addiction" may simply be a more acute and pathologically dense form of BED.
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