Food Addiction

01/01/2023 - "Sixteen studies were identified that examined relationships between food addiction and blood biomarkers, published between 2015 and 2021. "
01/01/2019 - "Collectively, our results provide evidence supporting the utility of food addiction in weight gain prevention research by establishing links with known risk-related neural and genetic biomarkers."
03/01/2019 - "The current therapeutics of morbid obesity could be significantly improved after the identification of novel biomarkers associated with the food addiction endophenotype of obesity and with bariatric surgery outcomes. "
01/01/2023 - "Articles were included if they contained a psychometric measurement of food addiction, such as the Yale Food Addiction Scale, as well as addressed the association between FA and hormones or blood biomarkers in humans. "
01/01/2023 - "This systematic literature review examines evidence for relationships between food addiction, hormones and other blood biomarkers. "

12/01/2011 - "Given that many abused drugs target the DA system, the elucidation of how dopaminergic, as well as other brain reward systems, are regulated by insulin will create opportunities to develop therapies for drug and potentially food addiction. "
12/01/2011 - "Moreover, a more complete understanding of the relationship between DA neurotransmission and insulin may help to uncover etiological bases for "food addiction" and the growing epidemic of obesity. "
12/01/2015 - "The differences include the use of insulin mismanagement to compensate for breaking eating rules and the consequential wide variations in plasma glucose that may predispose to 'food addiction'. "

04/01/2009 - "The current study represents a preliminary exploration of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), designed to identify those exhibiting signs of addiction towards certain types of foods (e.g., high fat and high sugar). "
01/01/2023 - "Individuals with food addiction showed significantly higher negative expectancies for healthy and junk food, lower intake of vegetables, higher intakes of added sugars and saturated fat. "
12/30/2022 - "Sugar Beverage Habitation Relieves Chronic Stress-Induced Anxiety-like Behavior but Elicits Compulsive Eating Phenotype via vLSGAD2 Neurons."
11/07/2022 - "The logistic regression models utilized suggest that participants in the group with food addiction problems are more likely to seek clinical help to control weight, to consider that they should eat less food high in sugar, and to report lower food adequacy. "
07/18/2022 - "Apart from the influence of HSD on these mood disturbances, added sugar can render food addiction. "

01/01/2021 - "It came in parallel with higher protein and energy intakes, higher rate of food addiction, and poor nutrition knowledge. "
01/01/2021 - "Alterations in stress-genes expression or protein function may induce behaviors as compulsive eating of high-energy containing food, which decreases stress-induced negative feelings. "
01/01/2018 - "We also discuss how knowledge gained from these studies has revealed new pathways and key proteins that could be potential therapeutic targets to reduce appetite and food addictions in obesity and other diseases."
01/01/2021 - "Moreover, an increase of this protein was observed in the plasma of obese patients with food addiction, suggesting the implication of CLU in this eating disorder. "
12/04/2021 - "subjects diagnosed with binge eating and/or food addiction symptoms (measured with the Binge Eating Scale and the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0) were asked to follow a VLCKD with protein replacement for 5-7 weeks (T1) and a low-calorie diet for 11-21 weeks (T2). "

01/01/2016 - "The aim of this study was to investigate a relationship between food addiction questionnaires, body composition measurements, and a dopamine- resistant receptor polymorphism (DRD2 A1) among Asian Americans. "
06/13/2013 - "Our objective was to employ a novel genetic methodology - whereby functional variants of the dopamine pathway were aggregated to reflect a polygenic liability - in the study of food addiction. "
01/01/2020 - "A significant interaction between food addiction status and sex was also observed for plasma dopamine levels. "
01/01/2020 - "Compulsive eating behavior is hypothesized to be driven in part by reward deficits likely due to neuroadaptations to the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system. "
01/01/2019 - "As predicted, polygenic dopamine scores were related to ventral striatum activity, which in turn was associated with higher food addiction scores. "

01/01/2022 - "Each team focused on a whole food low-carbohydrate approach along with delivering educational materials and psychosocial support relating to food addiction recovery. "
10/11/2021 - "Broadly, the existing literature suggests biological and behavioral parallels between food addiction and substance addictions, with ultraprocessed foods high in both added fat and refined carbohydrates being most implicated in addictive-like eating. "
01/01/2021 - "However, it remains largely unknown whether this is also the case for "food addiction"-a phenotype characterized by an addiction-like attraction to predominantly highly processed foods with a high content of refined carbohydrates and fat. "
01/01/2020 - "The concept of 'food addiction' (FA) posits that highly processed food with added fat and/or refined carbohydrates is capable of triggering addictive-like eating behavior. "
06/01/2019 - "Moreover, the schizophrenic patients with food addiction were found to take significantly more energy, carbohydrate, and fat in their diet (P < 0.05). "

01/01/2022 - "These findings warrant further study of whether behavioral economics analysis of compulsive eating can impact disordered eating outcomes in humans and of the translational relevance of a leptin-sensitive anterior insular circuit implicated in these behaviors."
01/01/2023 - "Leptin had been previously shown to be associated with food addiction and we confirmed this finding for men in a large, population-based approach."
11/01/2018 - "Food addiction in normal weight patients might be associated with restrained eating, previously shown to involve reduced leptin levels. "
11/01/2018 - "In contrast, food addiction was associated with a significantly higher serum leptin (ß = 0.16. "
11/01/2018 - "A weak negative association between food addiction and leptin in normal weight patients (ß = -0.11, p = .022) was detected. "

01/01/2021 - "In this study, we observed the compulsive eating in our stress-induced binge-like eating rat model using a conflicting test, where sucrose and an aversively conditioned stimulus were presented at the same time. "
12/30/2022 - "We further found that c-Fos expression was significantly increased in the ventral part of the lateral septum (vLS) of the sucrose-treated stressed mice after compulsive eating. "
01/01/2020 - "For instance, excessive intake of compounds, such as sucrose (SUC), has recently been reported to induce pathological neuronal changes in adults, such as food addiction. "
01/01/2019 - "The present observations suggest that EE exposure might be a promising tool for preventing repetitive binge-like sucrose consumption from transitioning to BED and food addiction."
07/01/2013 - "Obese subjects had a reduced behavioral hedonic response, yet a greater engagement of affective brain networks, particularly after sucrose ingestion, suggesting that in obese subjects, lingual and gut-derived signaling generate less central hedonic effects than food-related memories in response to visual cues, analogous to response patterns implicated in food addiction."

01/01/2023 - "Several key hormones are implicated in models of food addiction, due to their key roles in feeding, energy metabolism, stress and addictive behaviours. "
05/01/2022 - "The combined effects of probiotics and restricted calorie diet on the anthropometric indices, eating behavior, and hormone levels of obese women with food addiction: a randomized clinical trial."
04/18/2023 - "Effects of probiotic supplementation with weight reducing intervention on anthropometric measures, body composition, eating behavior, and related hormone levels in patients with food addiction and weight regain after bariatric surgery: a study protocol for a randomized clinical trial."
01/01/2023 - "Articles were included if they contained a psychometric measurement of food addiction, such as the Yale Food Addiction Scale, as well as addressed the association between FA and hormones or blood biomarkers in humans. "
01/01/2023 - "This systematic literature review examines evidence for relationships between food addiction, hormones and other blood biomarkers. "

04/01/1974 - "Treatment of compulsive eating disturbances with anticonvulsant medication."
02/01/2003 - "This study evaluates the effectiveness of a new antiepileptic medication, topiramate, on behavior, mood, and compulsive-eating disorder associated with Prader-Willi syndrome. "
01/01/2021 - "Regarding the existence of potential therapeutic solutions, lorcaserin, antiepileptic drugs, opioid antagonists, antiaddictive agents are recommended for obesity and eating disorders, and they may be intuitively used in food addiction, but clinical trials are necessary to confirm their efficacy. "

11/01/2021 - "The aim of the present study was to investigate whether the remission of preoperative food addiction is associated with increases or new onset of other addictions within the first year following bariatric surgery. "
09/23/2020 - "These preliminary findings suggest that Tele-CBT may be helpful, at least in the short term, in improving food addiction symptomatology among some patients who do not experience remission of food addiction following bariatric surgery; however, these findings require replication in a larger sample."
01/01/2023 - "Studies have shown a high prevalence of food addiction (FA) in bariatric surgery candidates. "
02/01/2021 - "However, a paucity of studies prospectively examined the prevalence and implications of food addiction before and post-bariatric surgery. "
01/01/2019 - "This study examined whether co-occurring LOC eating and food addiction represent a more severe variant post-bariatric surgery. "

01/01/2022 - "We selected articles from animal studies, randomized clinical trials, meta-analyses, narrative, and systemic reviews given that, crucial quantitative data with a measure of neurobiological, neuropharmacological aspects and current therapies of food addiction as an outcome. "
01/01/2022 - "This review aims to draw attention to current studies on syndromes related to food eating behavior, including food addiction, and to highlight the neurobiological and neuropharmacological aspects of food addiction toward the development of new therapies. "
11/03/2019 - "Future studies should address whether these three food addiction categories are indicative of therapy outcome."
01/01/2022 - "Changes in feeding behavior, food addiction, and its pharmacological therapy are related to complex neurobiological processes in the brain. "
08/19/2016 - "Screening for MC4R could be important for directing the carriers of mutations towards therapy including partial agonists of the MC4R that could normalize their appetite and inhibit compulsive eating. "

12/01/2001 - "Compulsive eating and gastric bypass surgery: what does hunger have to do with it?"
01/01/2020 - "Remission of Food Addiction Does Not Induce Cross-Addiction after Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: A Prospective Cohort Study."
01/01/2022 - "This study aimed to assess the effect of probiotic supplementation on binge eating and food addiction in subjects after Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery. "
01/01/2022 - "PROBIOTIC SUPPLEMENTATION ATTENUATES BINGE EATING AND FOOD ADDICTION 1 YEAR AFTER ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS: A RANDOMIZED, DOUBLE-BLIND, PLACEBO-CONTROLLED TRIAL."

01/01/2019 - "Food Addiction in Sleeve Gastrectomy Patients with Loss-of-Control Eating."
01/01/2020 - "Remission of Food Addiction Does Not Induce Cross-Addiction after Sleeve Gastrectomy and Gastric Bypass: A Prospective Cohort Study."
02/01/2021 - "Food Addiction and Binge Eating During One Year Following Sleeve Gastrectomy: Prevalence and Implications for Postoperative Outcomes."
01/01/2021 - "Food Addiction Disorder 2 Years After Sleeve Gastrectomy; Association with Physical Activity, Body Composition, and Weight Loss Outcomes."
01/01/2019 - "Co-occurrence of LOC and food addiction following sleeve gastrectomy signals a more severe subgroup with elevated eating disorder psychopathology, problematic eating behaviors, greater depressive symptoms, and diminished functioning. "

01/01/2022 - "The aim of this study is to assess the consumption of healthy elements of the Mediterranean diet in a group of university students and to evaluate whether the consumption pattern was related to sex, Body Mass Index (BMI), food addiction or the amount of physical activity performed. "
04/18/2021 - "This study analyzed food addiction in a group of young university students and to examine its association with body composition, quality of sleep, adherence to the Mediterranean diet, physical activity/sedentary habits, tobacco or alcohol consumption, and health status. "
06/26/2023 - "According to Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, they mainly slept 6-7 h, and 82% presented with a poor sleep quality; 13.5% presented moderate-high food addiction, and 35% had moderate Mediterranean Diet Adherence score. "
06/26/2023 - "The questionnaires used included the Mediterranean Diet Adherence test, AUDIT, Emotional Eater Questionnaire, Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, and Food Addiction, Perceived Stress Scale and STAI questionnaires. "
01/01/2022 - "The Mediterranean diet adherence questionnaire (PREDIMED), the food addiction scale (YFAS 2.0) and the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ) were completed. "