ArticleObesity facts2023
Correlates of Food Addiction and Eating Behaviours in Patients with Morbid Obesity.
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- Post-Pandemic Shifts in Sustainable Food Behavior: A Systematic Review of Emerging Consumer Trends.Nutrients · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- Prevalence of food addiction and sex-specific correlates in a large sample of Iranian adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- From eveningness to food addiction: exploring the roles of night eating syndrome and mindful eating.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Anthropometric, Nutritional, and Lifestyle Factors Involved in Predicting Food Addiction: An Agnostic Machine Learning Approach.Diseases (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Food addiction and the physical and mental health status of adults with overweight and obesity.PeerJ · 2024Article
- Relationship Between BMI, Self-Rated Depression, and Food Addiction-A Cross-Sectional Study of Adults in Postpandemic Poland.Depression and anxiety · 2024Article
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Abstract
introductionFood addiction (FA) is a promising construct regarding the multifactorial aetiology of obesity and the search for therapeutic approaches. However, there is an ongoing debate regarding the overlap/differentiation with eating disorders and the classification as a substance- or behaviour-related addiction. Energy-dense foods, especially those combining carbohydrates and fat, are associated with addictive eating and suspected of playing a role in the genesis of FA. This study aims to further understand the clinical significance of FA and to identify possible therapeutic targets. A special focus is set on potentially addictive foods (combination of carbohydrates and fat).
methodsBased on the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0, a cohort of 112 German adults with morbid obesity was divided into two sub-samples (patients with and without FA), which were examined for differences in the variables listed below.
resultsThe prevalence of FA was 25%. Patients meeting criteria for FA showed higher degrees of hunger, emotional, binge, and night eating than patients without FA. In addition, hunger and disinhibition were found to be significant predictors of FA. FA was not associated with sex, age, body mass index (BMI), cognitive restraint, rigid and flexible control, prevalence of substance use, age of onset of obesity, stress level, level of social support, reduction of BMI during a weight loss programme, or programme withdrawal rate. There was no significant difference in the consumption of foods rich in both carbohydrates and fat, nor of fat or carbohydrates alone.
conclusionFA can be considered as a sub-phenotype of obesity, occurring in approximately 25% of obesity cases. Dysfunctional emotional coping mechanisms associated with low distress tolerance showed to be significantly related to FA and should be targeted therapeutically. Behavioural interventions should include a bio-psycho-social model. Binge eating episodes were found to be characteristic for FA and the already stated overlap between FA and binge eating behaviour can be confirmed. The results do not support a decisive difference due to a substance-related component of FA. Despite this, the existence of FA as a distinct entity cannot be excluded, as not all patients with FA exhibit binges.
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