Abstract
The Translation of Substance Dependence Criteria to Food-Related Behaviors: Different Views and Interpretations
Highlights
In recent years, a food addiction model of obesity and overeating is gaining more and more popularity
Some key conclusions drawn in this article are that a vast majority of obese individuals would not show a convincing behavioral or neurobiological profile that resembles addiction and that the evidence for an overlap with addiction would be inconsistent and weak even when the food addiction model would be refined to obese individuals with binge eating disorder (BED)
Obese individuals are well-suited for research on food addiction because symptomatology is much more prevalent as compared to non-obese samples (Meule, 2011)
Summary
A food addiction model of obesity and overeating is gaining more and more popularity. In our opinion, Ziauddeen et al (2012) correctly infer that not all obese individuals are food addicted and that food addiction does rather relate to binge eating behaviors, but they miss the fact that most researchers in this area would agree with this idea.
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