2nd Edition: Food Addiction and Binge Eating
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Behavior, Chronic Disease and Health Promotion".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2023) | Viewed by 363
Special Issue Editor
Interests: regulation of energy homeostasis; metabolic syndrome; hedonic food intake; eating disorders; animal models
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Dear Colleagues,
The feeding process is required for basic life and is tightly regulated according to the demands of the internal milieu by regulatory brain circuits. However, in recent years, there has been growing evidence that certain foods may be addictive, and under some circumstances, people could become addicted to food or to eating behavior that cause neuronal changes and a chronic perturbation in the brain reward and homeostasis systems. While the drug addiction process has been highly characterized, eating addiction/food addiction is a nascent field, and there is still substantial controversy about it in the scientific community. Obese and overweight individuals also show habits of eating behaviors that evoke the ways in which addicted individuals consume drugs.
In this context, both scientific and clinical questions remain unclear: can we talk about food addiction? Is food addiction a substance or behavioral addiction? Can overeating become a pathologic attachment to food? Should obesity be treated as food addiction? Should we distinguish food addiction from other conditions of eating disorders such as binge-eating disorder?
Recently, an interesting Special Issue in IJERPH explored a wide range of scientific and clinical aspects to elucidate the open questions with a special interest in the addictive nature of food in the context of overeating, food addiction, and obesity. Now, with this new Special Issue, we will try to cover new relevant aspects relevant to this topic.
Dr. Marta Garrido Novelle
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food addiction
- food cues
- reward
- obesity
- food behavior
- binge eating
- eating addiction
