Erschienen in:
14.01.2022 | Brief Report
Food Addiction Features Are Related to Worse Academic Performance in Adolescents
verfasst von:
Cristina Reche-García, Pablo Sánchez Martínez, Magdalena Gómez Díaz, Daniel Guillén-Martínez, Isabel Morales-Moreno, Juan José Hernández Morante
Erschienen in:
International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction
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Ausgabe 4/2023
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Excerpt
Although it has not yet been included in the Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) (Cooper,
2014), there is still a debate about the real significance of food addiction (FA), both as an independent mental disorder or as an addictive behavior (Lemeshow et al.,
2016). To differentiate between a pleasantness and an addictive conduct, it is necessary a loss of control associated with such conduct, which is maintained despite negative consequences (Wise & Koob,
2014). Therefore, FA was defined as hedonic eating behavior involving the consumption of highly palatable foods in quantities beyond homeostatic energy requirements (Gold & Shriner,
2013). An important question arises from these statements, and that is, can certain foods take over the brain in ways like drugs of abuse and alcohol? …