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Food Addiction among Female Patients Seeking Treatment for an Eating Disorder: Prevalence and Associated Factors.
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- Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery is the Most Effective Intervention in Reducing Food Addiction Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Obesity surgery · 2024Pooled it
- Disentangling binge eating disorder and food addiction: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Pooled it
- Food addiction as a transdiagnostic feature associated with binge-eating symptoms in eating disorders: prevalence and rehabilitation outcomes in an Italian inpatient population.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- Craving as a transdiagnostic marker of addiction? A perspective for behavioral addictions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- A feasibility and acceptability study of liberate: an online, peer-supported, psychoeducational intervention for ultra processed food addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Binge-type eating disorders and ultra-processed food addiction: phenomenology, pathophysiology and treatment implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Low carbohydrate and psychoeducational programs show promise for the treatment of ultra-processed food addiction: 12-month follow-up.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Development of the Food Addiction Symptom Inventory: The first clinical interview to assess ultra-processed food addiction.Psychological assessment · 2024Article
- A novel weight suppression score associates with distinct eating disorder and ultra-processed food symptoms compared to the traditional weight suppression measure among adults seeking outpatient nutrition counseling.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
- Associations of Food Addiction Symptomatology and Disordered Eating Behaviors in a Pre-Surgical Bariatric Population.Nutrients · 2023Article
- The Role of Food Addiction and Lifetime Substance Use on Eating Disorder Treatment Outcomes.Nutrients · 2023Article
- Food addiction and its relationship with other eating behaviours among Spanish university students.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Brain Correlates of Eating Disorders in Response to Food Visual Stimuli: A Systematic Narrative Review of FMRI Studies.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Food addiction in anorexia nervosa: Implications for the understanding of crossover diagnosis.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2022Article
- Food addiction and lifetime alcohol and illicit drugs use in specific eating disorders.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2022Article
- Low carbohydrate and psychoeducational programs show promise for the treatment of ultra-processed food addiction.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Clinical Considerations of Ultra-processed Food Addiction Across Weight Classes: an Eating Disorder Treatment and Care Perspective.Current addiction reports · 2022Review
- Two of a Kind? Mapping the Psychopathological Space between Obesity with and without Binge Eating Disorder.Nutrients · 2021Article
- Inter-Individual Differences in Food Addiction and Other Forms of Addictive-Like Eating Behavior.Nutrients · 2021Article
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Abstract
The concept of "food addiction" (FA) has aroused much focus because of evidence for similarities between overeating and substance use disorders (SUDs). However, few studies have explored this concept among the broad spectrum of eating disorders (ED), especially in anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aimed to assess FA prevalence in ED female patients and to determine its associated factors. We recruited a total of 195 adult women with EDs from an ED treatment center. The prevalence of FA diagnosis (Yale Food Addiction Scale) in the whole ED sample was 83.6%; AN restrictive type (AN-R), 61.5%; AN binge-eating/purging type (AN-BP), 87.9%; bulimia nervosa (BN), 97.6%; and binge-eating disorder (BED), 93.3%. The most frequently met criteria of FA were "clinically significant impairment or distress in relation to food", "craving" and "persistent desire or repeated unsuccessful attempts to cut down". An FA diagnosis was independently associated with three variables: presence of recurrent episodes of binge eating, ED severity, and lower interoceptive awareness. In showing an overlap between ED and FA, this study allows for considering EDs, and AN-R in particular, from an "addictive point of view", and thus for designing therapeutic management that draws from those proposed for addictive disorders.
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