SynthesisObesity surgery2024
Bariatric-Metabolic Surgery is the Most Effective Intervention in Reducing Food Addiction Symptoms: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.
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- Dysregulated eating behaviour and microbiota-based interventions targeting eating disorders and food addiction.Gut microbes · 2026Review
- Individuals With Food Addiction After Metabolic And Bariatric Surgery Show Higher Consumption of Ultra-Processed Foods, Sedentary Lifestyle, Anxiety, and Sub-Optimal Body Weight Trajectories.Obesity surgery · 2026Article
- Comprehensive analysis of the relationship between ultra-processed food consumption and food addiction at one-year follow-up in older adults with metabolic syndrome.Journal of behavioral addictions · 2026Article
- Incretin-Based Therapies and Post-Bariatric Surgery Alcohol Use Disorder.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Prevalence of food addiction and sex-specific correlates in a large sample of Iranian adults.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Evidence to action: a perspective on treatment approaches for food addiction.European journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Review
- Prevalence and associated factors of eating disorders among metabolic bariatric surgery patients in Egypt.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- When bariatric surgery reduces food addiction: a prospective study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- A feasibility and acceptability study of liberate: an online, peer-supported, psychoeducational intervention for ultra processed food addiction.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
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Abstract
There are different treatments for food addiction (FA) symptomatology, but a comprehensive review with a meta-analysis to determine the most effective intervention is lacking. The aim of this review is to investigate the efficacy of pharmacological, behavioral, and bariatric-metabolic surgical interventions in reducing FA symptomatology. Meta-analyses including 15 studies in adults showed a significantly positive effect (std mean difference in FA symptoms before vs after intervention 0.72 (0.58-0.95)), with bariatric-metabolic surgical interventions showing the highest efficacy in improving FA symptoms (1.17 (0.58-1.76) before vs after intervention). The existing evidence suggests a beneficial effect of bariatric-metabolic surgical, pharmacological, and behavioral interventions, in that order, on FA symptomatology in people with overweight/obesity. Weight loss and behavioral and lifestyle changes after surgery may be determinants in improving FA symptomatology.
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