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Ethical, Stigma, and Policy Implications of Food Addiction: A Scoping Review.
Article in Nutrients, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04666831 (Adapted Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Food Addiction), which is not on this map. Cited by 22 papers.
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Adapted Motivational Interviewing and Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Food Addiction: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
22 citing papers in PubMed, 51 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Food noise: definition, measurement, and future research directions.Nutrition & diabetes · 2025Review
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- Refined carbohydrates and the overfat pandemic: implications for brain health and public health policy.Frontiers in public health · 2025Review
- Reliability and validity of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0 (mYFAS 2.0) in a sample of individuals with depressive disorders.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health: Where Do Eating Disorders Fit into the Puzzle?Nutrients · 2024Review
- Dismantling the myth of "all foods fit" in eating disorder treatment.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Correlates of Food Addiction and Eating Behaviours in Patients with Morbid Obesity.Obesity facts · 2023Article
- Editorial: Neurobiology of food addiction.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
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- Validation of the Arabic version of the modified Yale Food Addiction Scale in the general population in Lebanon.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Article
- Current Status of Evidence for a New Diagnosis: Food Addiction-A Literature Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Review
- Food Addiction and Its Relationship to Weight- and Addiction-Related Psychological Parameters in Individuals With Overweight and Obesity.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Meeting of Minds around Food Addiction: Insights from Addiction Medicine, Nutrition, Psychology, and Neurosciences.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Food Addiction and Psychosocial Adversity: Biological Embedding, Contextual Factors, and Public Health Implications.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Separating the Signal from the Noise: How Psychiatric Diagnoses Can Help Discern Food Addiction from Dietary Restraint.Nutrients · 2020Review
- Health Professionals' and Health Professional Trainees' Views on Addictive Eating Behaviours: A Cross-Sectional Survey.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Food Addiction and Eating Addiction: Scientific Advances and Their Clinical, Social and Policy Implications.Nutrients · 2020Article
- Fat Addiction: Psychological and Physiological Trajectory.Nutrients · 2019Review
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The concept of food addiction has generated much controversy. In comparison to research examining the construct of food addiction and its validity, relatively little research has examined the broader implications of food addiction. The purpose of the current scoping review was to examine the potential ethical, stigma, and health policy implications of food addiction. Major themes were identified in the literature, and extensive overlap was identified between several of the themes. Ethics sub-themes related primarily to individual responsibility and included: (i) personal control, will power, and choice; and (ii) blame and weight bias. Stigma sub-themes included: (i) the impact on self-stigma and stigma from others, (ii) the differential impact of substance use disorder versus behavioral addiction on stigma, and (iii) the additive stigma of addiction plus obesity and/or eating disorder. Policy implications were broadly derived from comparisons to the tobacco industry and focused on addictive foods as opposed to food addiction. This scoping review underscored the need for increased awareness of food addiction and the role of the food industry, empirical research to identify specific hyperpalatable food substances, and policy interventions that are not simply extrapolated from tobacco.
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