Is food addiction a valid and useful concept?
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Is food addiction a valid and useful concept?
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 acceptance shapes debate and research. However, we argue that the evidence for its existence in humans is actually rather limited and, in addition, there are fundamental theore...
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عنوان ژورنال: Obesity Reviews
سال: 2012
ISSN: 1467-7881,1467-789X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-789x.2012.01046.x