ReviewThe Yale journal of biology and medicine2015
Back by Popular Demand: A Narrative Review on the History of Food Addiction Research.
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- Unhealthy food bias in food addiction: behavioral evidence from a probabilistic image choice task.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- The MotivATE randomized controlled trial: treating food addiction with adapted motivational interviewing and cognitive behavioural therapy versus a waitlist control condition.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Emotion regulation and impulsivity evolution during transdiagnostic DBT implementation in addictology - a 3-year naturalistic study.Substance abuse treatment, prevention, and policy · 2026Article
- Case management of ultra-processed food addiction: a theoretical perspective.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Addiction spectrum disorder: a conceptual framework for comprehensive understanding of addictive disorders.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
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- The MFM program: a successful model in the field of food addiction recovery.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Food addiction and binge eating disorder are linked to shared and unique deficits in emotion regulation among female seeking bariatric surgery.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
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- Correlates of Food Addiction and Eating Behaviours in Patients with Morbid Obesity.Obesity facts · 2023Article
- Relationships between alexithymia and food addiction: The Finnish version of Yale Food Addiction Scale and preliminary test of its psychometric properties.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- A Tailored Gender-Sensitive mHealth Weight Loss Intervention (I-GENDO): Development and Process Evaluation.JMIR formative research · 2022Article
- miRNA signatures associated with vulnerability to food addiction in mice and humans.The Journal of clinical investigation · 2022Article
- Current Intervention Treatments for Food Addiction: A Systematic Review.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Review
- Food addiction, executive function and mood in adolescents with obesity seeking treatment.Appetite · 2021Article
- Persian Version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0: Psychometric Analysis and Setting Cutoff Point for the Food Cravings Questionnaire-Trait-Reduced.Psychiatry investigation · 2021Article
- The FODRAT study (FOod addiction, DRugs, Alcohol and Tobacco): first data on food addiction prevalence among patients with addiction to drugs, tobacco and alcohol.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Observational
- Structural validity, measurement invariance, reliability and diagnostic accuracy of the Italian version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 in patients with severe obesity and the general population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Article
- A Case-Control Study on Behavioral Addictions and Neurocognition: Description of the BANCO and BANCO2 Protocols.Neuropsychiatric disease and treatment · 2021Article
- The Relationship of Food Addiction With Other Eating Pathologies and Impulsivity: A Case-Control Study.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
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Abstract
In recent years, the concept of food addiction has gained more and more popularity. This approach acknowledges the apparent parallels between substance use disorders and overeating of highly palatable, high-caloric foods. Part of this discussion includes that "hyperpalatable" foods may have an addictive potential because of increased potency due to certain nutrients or additives. Although this idea seems to be relatively new, research on food addiction actually encompasses several decades, a fact that often remains unrecognized. Scientific use of the term addiction in reference to chocolate even dates back to the 19th century. In the 20th century, food addiction research underwent several paradigm shifts, which include changing foci on anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, obesity, or binge eating disorder. Thus, the purpose of this review is to describe the history and state of the art of food addiction research and to demonstrate its development and refinement of definitions and methodologies.
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