Excessive sugar consumption is increasingly considered as a contributor to the emerging
epidemics of obesity and the associated cardiometabolic disease. Sugar is added to the diet …

The diagnostic construct of “food addiction” is a highly controversial subject. The current
systematic review is the first to evaluate empirical studies examining the construct of “food …

Past public health crises (eg, tobacco, alcohol, opioids, cholera, human immunodeficiency
virus (HIV), lead, pollution, venereal disease, even coronavirus (COVID-19) have been met …

The obesity epidemic has been widely publicized in the media worldwide. Investigators at all
levels have been looking for factors that have contributed to the development of this …

Background: The concept of food addiction attracts much interest in the scientific community.
Research is mainly based on the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS), a tool developed to …

The present study explored the consumption of ultra-processed foods and its association
with food addiction in overweight children. The prevalence of food addiction was …

Addictive substances such as opiates and other drugs are highly reinforcing and some (but
not all) individuals consume them compulsively. Highly processed (HP) foods have …

Aims: Due to the increasing evidence of shared vulnerabilities between addictive behaviors
and excessive food intake, the concept of food addiction in specific clinical populations has …

Sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) increase risk of cardiometabolic disease. Young
people consume the largest amounts of SSBs and have experienced the greatest relative …

Purpose. The purpose of this research is to test the psychometric properties and factorial
structure of the Addiction-like Eating Behaviors Scale (AEBS) in an Italian sample of adults …