Is food addiction a valid and useful concept? (2013)

Obes Rev. 2013 January; 14(1): 19–28. Published online 2012 October 12. doi:  10.1111/j.1467-789X.2012.01046.x H Ziauddeen1,2,3 and P C Fletcher1,2,3 Abstract In this paper, we consider the concept of food addiction from a clinical and neuroscientific perspective. Food addiction has an established and growing currency in the context of models of overeating and obesity, and its […]

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The drive to eat: comparisons and distinctions between mechanisms of food reward and drug addiction (2012)

Nat Neurosci. 2012 Oct;15(10):1330-5. doi: 10.1038/nn.3202. DiLeone RJ, Taylor JR, Picciotto MR. Source Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. Abstract The growing rates of obesity have prompted comparisons between the uncontrolled intake of food and drugs; however, an evaluation of the equivalence of food- and drug-related behaviors requires a […]

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The obesity epidemic and food addiction: clinical similarities to drug dependence (2012)

J Psychoactive Drugs. 2012 Jan-Mar;44(1):56-63. Fortuna JL. Source Department of Health Science, California State University, Fullerton, CA 92831, USA. [email protected] Abstract As of 2010 nearly 70% of adult Americans were overweight or obese. Specifically, 35.7% of adult Americans are obese, and this is the highest level of obesity in the recorded history of the United […]

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Food addiction: its prevalence and significant association with obesity in the general population (2013)

PLoS One. 2013 Sep 4;8(9):e74832. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0074832. Pedram P, Wadden D, Amini P, Gulliver W, Randell E, Cahill F, Vasdev S, Goodridge A, Carter JC, Zhai G, Ji Y, Sun G. Source Discipline of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada. Abstract BACKGROUND: ‘Food addiction’ shares a similar neurobiological and behavioral […]

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Age 25 – In 90 days my life has turned around and it’s the best it’s ever been since I can remember.

I started my 90 day journey on June 16. I am 25 years old and a month before starting I had broken up with my girlfriend of 4 months. In hindsight, it was a terrible relationship but at the time I thought the opposite. I’ve had two other girlfriends in my life but we were […]

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1 year – Married: Sex is more frequent, longer, and better. I’ve become more masculine, she’s become more feminine

I had been masturbating to internet porn for over thirteen years and married for two years at this time last year. I was never too happy about my need to fap as a single man, but I hated it as a married one. I’m convinced that it affected our relationship, as I could already sense […]

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