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Food Addiction and Psychosocial Adversity: Biological Embedding, Contextual Factors, and Public Health Implications.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 64 citations in OpenAlex.
- A meta-analysis assessing reliability of the Yale Food Addiction Scale: Implications for compulsive eating and obesity.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2025Pooled it
- A unified theory of restrictive and addictive eating: a life course model integrating generational transmission, neurodevelopmental risk, and ultra-processed food use disorder-a theoretical review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- A taste of (dis)trust: do social cynicism and gratitude predict and reciprocate addiction-like eating?Journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Examining the association between food addiction, stress, and social competence.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Environmental Influences on Food Addiction and Cardiometabolic Profiles in Law Enforcement Officers.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Binge Eating Based on the Addictive Appetite Model and Specialist Supportive Clinical Management with Adjunct Motivational Enhancement Therapy for Patients with Bulimia Nervosa: A Feasibility Study.Journal of obesity & metabolic syndrome · 2026Article
- Changes in binge eating symptoms following an online community-based ultra-processed food addiction intervention: Liberate.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Beyond Stigma-Integrating Neurobiology, Genetics, and Awareness Integration Theory in Addiction Recovery.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Comparative Analysis of Food Addiction and Obesity: A Critical Review.Food science & nutrition · 2025Review
- 'Do no harm' - the impact of an intervention for addictive eating on disordered eating behaviours in Australian adults: secondary analysis of the TRACE randomised controlled trial.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Lower Cortisol and Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate and Higher Food Addiction in Childhood Obesity: Associations With Stress and Dietary Parameters.Journal of the Endocrine Society · 2025Article
- The association between cumulative adverse childhood experiences and ultra-processed food addiction is moderated by substance use disorder history among adults seeking outpatient nutrition counseling.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Association of Food Addiction With Obesity in Young Adults Belonging to Urban and Rural Populations.Cureus · 2024Article
- Food inequity and insecurity and MASLD: burden, challenges, and interventions.Nature reviews. Gastroenterology & hepatology · 2024Review
- Nicotine addiction and the influence of life adversity and acute stress on PYY: Prediction of early smoking relapse.Pharmacology research & perspectives · 2024Article
- Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health: Where Do Eating Disorders Fit into the Puzzle?Nutrients · 2024Review
- The Stress Phenotyping Framework: A multidisciplinary biobehavioral approach for assessing and therapeutically targeting maladaptive stress physiology.Stress (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Review
- Computational models of behavioral addictions: State of the art and future directions.Addictive behaviors · 2023Review
- Associations between observed neighborhood physical disorder and health behaviors, New Jersey behavioral risk factor Surveillance System 2011-2016.Preventive medicine reports · 2023Article
- An integrative model as a step toward increasing the awareness of eating disorders in the general population.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
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Abstract
The role of stress, trauma, and adversity particularly early in life has been identified as a contributing factor in both drug and food addictions. While links between traumatic stress and substance use disorders are well documented, the pathways to food addiction and obesity are less established. This review focuses on psychosocial and neurobiological factors that may increase risk for addiction-like behaviors and ultimately increase BMI over the lifespan. Early childhood and adolescent adversity can induce long-lasting alterations in the glucocorticoid and dopamine systems that lead to increased addiction vulnerability later in life. Allostatic load, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, and emerging data on epigenetics in the context of biological embedding are highlighted. A conceptual model for food addiction is proposed, which integrates data on the biological embedding of adversity as well as upstream psychological, social, and environmental factors. Dietary restraint as a feature of disordered eating is discussed as an important contextual factor related to food addiction. Discussion of various public health and policy considerations are based on the concept that improved knowledge of biopsychosocial mechanisms contributing to food addiction may decrease stigma associated with obesity and disordered eating behavior.
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