Converging research suggests phenomenological and neurobiological similarities between excessive food consumption and addictive behaviour in substance dependence. Recently, the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) has been proposed for the assessment of addictive eating behaviour. The German version of the YFAS was administered to obese individuals seeking bariatric surgery (N = 96). Factor structu...

We study density-dependent resource harvest patterns due to Bayesian foraging for different distributions of resources. We first consider a forager with information about the stochastic properties of its environment. In this case we show that when the number of food items per patch follows a distribution from the exponential family, the density dependence is given by the ratio sigma2/μ of th...

Background Consumer demand for vegetarian options is growing. Fast-food restaurants have responded by adding high-profile offerings, but little known about the overall availability or nutrient profile of at these establishments, how items compare with nonvegetarian items. Objective The purpose this study was to quantify trends in and US fast-food from 2012 2018. Design This a longitudinal analy...

Socially-and culturally-patterned differences in food habits exist both between and within European populations. Daily individual food availability data, collected through the national household budget surveys (HBS) and harmonized in the context of the Data Food Networking (DAFNE) project, were used to assess disparities in food habits of seven European populations and to evaluate dietary chang...

It well known that palatability and nutritional quality of foods and/or diets are viewed as being in tension with one another. While there exist multiple measures healthiness, no such for tastiness. This gap limits the degree to which researchers can investigate this its implications dietary behavior hence public health nutrition policy. The scope future work concerning Americans would expand g...