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Hormonal and dietary characteristics in obese human subjects with and without food addiction.
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- What Is the Evidence for "Food Addiction?" A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2018Pooled it
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- Anthropometric, Nutritional, and Lifestyle Factors Involved in Predicting Food Addiction: An Agnostic Machine Learning Approach.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Food addiction and the physical and mental health status of adults with overweight and obesity.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Reactive hypoglycemia in binge eating disorder, food addiction, and the comorbid phenotype: unravelling the metabolic drive to disordered eating behaviours.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Leptin, but not ghrelin, is associated with food addiction scores in a population-based subject sample.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Correlates of Food Addiction and Eating Behaviours in Patients with Morbid Obesity.Obesity facts · 2023Article
- Decreased excitability of leptin-sensitive anterior insula pyramidal neurons in a rat model of compulsive food demand.Neuropharmacology · 2022Article
- Gut hormones, adipokines, and pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines/markers in loss of control eating: A scoping review.Appetite · 2021Article
- Food Addiction Disorder 2 Years After Sleeve Gastrectomy; Association with Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Weight Loss Outcomes.Obesity surgery · 2021Article
- Worldwide flavor enhancer monosodium glutamate combined with high lipid diet provokes metabolic alterations and systemic anomalies: An overview.Toxicology reports · 2021Review
- Food Addiction, Saturated Fat Intake, and Body Mass Index in Peruvian Adults: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Journal of nutrition and metabolism · 2021Article
- Does Eating Addiction Favor a More Varied Diet or Contribute to Obesity?-The Case of Polish Adults.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Insula to ventral striatal projections mediate compulsive eating produced by intermittent access to palatable food.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Compulsive eating behaviors in Parkinson's disease.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
- Intermittent, extended access to preferred food leads to escalated food reinforcement and cyclic whole-body metabolism in rats: Sex differences and individual vulnerability.Physiology & behavior · 2018Article
- Food and beverage consumption and food addiction among women in the Nurses' Health Studies.Appetite · 2018Article
- The Association Between an Addictive Tendency Toward Food and Metabolic Characteristics in the General Newfoundland Population.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2018Article
- Prevalence of food addiction among Iranian children and adolescents: Associations with sociodemographic and anthropometric indices.Medical journal of the Islamic Republic of Iran · 2018Article
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Abstract
The concept of food addiction (FA) is a potentially important contributing factor to the development of obesity in the general population; however, little is known about the hormonal and dietary differences between obesity with and without FA. Therefore, the aim of our study was to explore potential biomarkers, including various hormones and neuropeptides, which regulate appetite and metabolism, and dietary components that could potentially differentiate obesity with and without FA. Of the 737 adults recruited from the general Newfoundland population, 58 food-addicted and non-food-addicted overweight/obese individuals (FAO, NFO) matched for age, sex, BMI and physical activity were selected. A total of 34 neuropeptides, gut hormones, pituitary polypeptide hormones and adipokines were measured in fasting serum. We found that the FAO group had lower levels of TSH, TNF-α and amylin, but higher levels of prolactin, as compared to NFO group. The total calorie intake (per kg body weight), the dietary intake of fat (per g/kg body weight, per BMI and per percentage of trunk fat) and the percent calorie intake from fat and carbohydrates (g/kg) was higher in the FAO group compared to the NFO group. The FAO subjects consumed more sugar, minerals (including sodium, potassium, calcium and selenium), fat and its components (such as saturated, monounsaturated and trans fat), omega 3 and 6, vitamin D and gamma-tocopherol compared to the NFO group. To our knowledge, this is the first study indicating possible differences in hormonal levels and micro-nutrient intakes between obese individuals classified with and without food addiction. The findings provide insights into the mechanisms by which FA could contribute to obesity.
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