ReviewClinical chemistry2018
Food Addiction, High-Glycemic-Index Carbohydrates, and Obesity.
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58 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 158 citations in OpenAlex.
- Association between ultraprocessed foods consumption, eating disorders, food addiction and body image: a systematic review.BMJ open · 2024Pooled it
- Food addiction and psychiatric comorbidities: a review of current evidence.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2021Pooled it
- Can There be Differences in Blood Glucose Fluctuations with Consumption of Cornbread in Obesity and Normal-Weight Individuals: A Randomized Controlled Trial.Plant foods for human nutrition (Dordrecht, Netherlands) · 2025Trial
- Diets Varying in Carbohydrate Content Differentially Alter Brain Activity in Homeostatic and Reward Regions in Adults.The Journal of nutrition · 2021Trial
- Gastrointestinal Tolerance of D-Allulose in Healthy and Young Adults. A Non-Randomized Controlled Trial.Nutrients · 2018Trial
- Effects of a low carbohydrate diet on energy expenditure during weight loss maintenance: randomized trial.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2018Trial
- Prevalence of food addiction and its association with ghrelin and metabolic parameters in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus: a cross-sectional study.BMC endocrine disorders · 2026Article
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- Associations between dietary glycemic and insulinemic patterns and eating behavior in adults: a cluster-based analysis.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2026Article
- Adaptive Ketogenic-Mediterranean Protocol (AKMP) in Real Clinical Practice: 14-Week Pre-Post Cohort Study on Glucolipid Markers and Safety.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Beyond GLP-1 Agonists: An Adaptive Ketogenic-Mediterranean Protocol to Counter Metabolic Adaptation in Obesity Management.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Dietary Acrylamide Exposure and Its Correlation with Nutrition and Exercise Behaviours Among Turkish Adolescents.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Comparative Analysis of Food Addiction and Obesity: A Critical Review.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- Anthropometric, Nutritional, and Lifestyle Factors Involved in Predicting Food Addiction: An Agnostic Machine Learning Approach.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Dietary Relationships between Obesity and Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: A Narrative Review of Diets Which May Promote Both Diseases.Current gastroenterology reports · 2025Review
- The relationship between food addiction, eating attitudes, and psychiatric symptoms with metabolic control in adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Sex differences in ketogenic diet: are men more likely than women to lose weight?Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Review
- Global, regional, and national disease burden attributable to high body mass index in youth and young adults: 2021 global burden of disease study analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- TOWARD: a metabolic health intervention that improves food addiction and binge eating symptoms.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Abstinence-based treatment of comorbid eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
backgroundTreatment success in obesity remains low, and recently food addiction has been delineated as an underlying etiologic factor with therapeutic relevance. Specifically, current treatment focuses on reduced food intake and increase of physical activity, whereas interventions for addiction encompass behavioral therapy, abstinence, and environmental interventions such as taxation, restrictions on advertising, and regulation of school menus. CONTENT: Here, we reviewed the pertinent literature on food addiction with a specific focus on the role of high-glycemic-index carbohydrates in triggering addictive symptoms. Three lines of evidence support the concept of food addiction: ( SUMMARY: We argue that food addiction is a plausible etiological factor contributing to the heterogeneous condition and phenotype of obesity. In at least a subset of vulnerable individuals, high-glycemic-index carbohydrates trigger addiction-like neurochemical and behavioral responses.
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