ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2015
Current considerations regarding food addiction.
Review in Current psychiatry reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 99 citations in OpenAlex.
- An addiction-based digital weight loss intervention: A multi-centre randomized controlled trial.Pediatric obesity · 2023Trial
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- The Effect of a Food Addiction Explanation Model for Weight Control and Obesity on Weight Stigma.Nutrients · 2020Trial
- Childhood traumatic experiences and addiction-like eating behaviors: the mediating roles of attachment, mentalization, and emotional eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- The Path from Childhood Emotional Maltreatment to Disordered Eating Behaviors: The Role of Reflective Functioning and Food Addiction.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Tying Food Addiction to Uncontrolled Eating: The Roles of Eating-Related Thoughts and Emotional Eating.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Exploring the prevalence and symptom presentation of food addiction among Norwegian bariatric surgery patients: associations with depression, dysregulated eating, and postoperative weight loss.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
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- Psychosocial risk and protective factors for youth problem behavior are associated with food addiction in the Generation Z.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Potential Biological Markers and Treatment Implications for Binge Eating Disorder and Behavioral Addictions.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Associations Between Food Addiction and Substance-Use Disorders: A Critical Overview of their Overlapping Patterns of Consumption.Current addiction reports · 2022Review
- Sugars and Sweet Taste: Addictive or Rewarding?International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
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- The Relationship of Food Addiction With Other Eating Pathologies and Impulsivity: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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- 'Liking' and 'wanting' in eating and food reward: Brain mechanisms and clinical implications.Physiology & behavior · 2020Review
- Longitudinal Changes in Food Addiction Symptoms and Body Weight among Adults in a Behavioral Weight-Loss Program.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Brain-gut-microbiome interactions in obesity and food addiction.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2020Review
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- "Making weight" during military service is related to binge eating and eating pathology for veterans later in life.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2019Article
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Abstract
"Food addiction" is an emerging area, and behavioral and biological overlaps have been observed between eating and addictive disorders. Potential misconceptions about applying an addiction framework to problematic eating behavior may inhibit scientific progress. Critiques of "food addiction" that focus on descriptive differences between overeating and illicit drugs are similar to early criticisms of the addictiveness of tobacco. Although food is necessary for survival, the highly processed foods associated with addictive-like eating may provide little health benefit. Individual differences are important in determining who develops an addiction. If certain foods are addictive, the identification of possible risk factors for "food addiction" is an important next step. Not all treatments for addiction require abstinence. Addiction interventions that focus on moderation or controlled use may lead to novel approaches to treating eating-related problems. Finally, addiction-related policies that focus on environmental (instead of educational) targets may have a larger public health impact in reducing overeating.
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