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Gearhardt A N et al 2026 - From Tobacco to Ultraprocessed Food: How Industry Engineering Fuels the Epidemic of Preventable Disease
Lustig R H 2025 - The battle over “food addiction”
Choroszyński M et al 2025 - Development and Validation of the Psychometric Properties of the FitMIND Foundation Sweets Addiction Scale-A Pilot Study
Rehn S et al 2025 - Behavioural and physiological effects of binge eating: A systematic review and meta-analysis of animal models
Unwin J et al 2025 - Low carbohydrate and psychoeducational programs show promise for the treatment of ultra-processed food addiction: 12-month follow-up
Hamano S et all 2024 - Ultra-processed foods cause weight gain and increased energy intake associated with reduced chewing frequency: A randomized, open-label, crossover study
Wiss D A et al 2024 - Ultra-Processed Foods and Mental Health: Where Do Eating Disorders Fit into the Puzzle?
Zhang X et al 2024 - Social Isolation, Brain Food Cue Processing, Eating Behaviors, and Mental Health Symptoms
Brewerton et al 2024 - Dismantling the myth of "all foods fit" in eating disorder treatment.
Radoman M et al 2024 - Neural Correlates of Stress and Alcohol Cue-Induced Alcohol Craving and of Future Heavy Drinking: Evidence of Sex Differences
Wee R et a 2023 - Internal-state-dependent control of feeding behavior via hippocampal ghrelin signaling
Kwon M et al 2023 - Caffeinated Soda Intake in Children Is Associated with Neurobehavioral Risk Factors for Substance Misuse
Gearhardt A et al 2023 - Social, clinical, and policy implications of ultra-processed food addiction
Touvier M et al 2023 - Ultra-processed foods and cardiometabolic health: public health policies to reduce consumption cannot wait
Gearhardt et al 2023 - Social, clinical, and policy implications of ultra-processed food addiction
Horsager C et al 2023 - Psychometric validation of the full Yale food addiction scale for children 2.0 among adolescents from the general population and adolescents with a history of mental disorder
Eyre H et al 2023 - Good Food is Vital for Brain Health So We Must Change the Food Industry
Shrivastava K et al 2023 - Maternal overnutrition is associated with altered synaptic input to lateral hypothalamic area
Borgonetti V et al 2023 - Chronic alcohol induced mechanical allodynia by promoting neuroinflammation: a mouse model of alcohol-evoked neuropathic pain.
Grzelka et al 2023 - A synaptic amplifier of hunger for regaining body weight in the hypothalamus
Thanarajah S et al 2023 - Habitual daily intake of a sweet and fatty snack modulates reward processing in humans
Zhao J et al 2023 - Association Between Daily Alcohol Intake and Risk of All-Cause Mortality: A Systematic Review and Meta-analyses
Hesse C et al 2023 - Unwrapped: Readiness-to-eat in food images affects cravings
Peng S et al 2023 - Does obesity related eating behaviours only affect chronic diseases? A nationwide study of university students in China
Carbia C et al 2023 - The Microbiome-Gut-Brain axis regulates social cognition & craving in young binge drinkers
Gertler & Gracner 2022 - The Sweet Life: The Long-Term Effects of a Sugar-Rich Early Childhood
Ousey J et al 2022 - Gut microbiota suppress feeding induced by palatable foods: Current Biology
Witek K et al 2025 - A High-Sugar Diet Consumption, Metabolism and Health Impacts with a Focus on the Development of Substance Use Disorder: A Narrative Review
Is Food Addictive? A Review of the Science
López-Taboada I et al 2020 - Western Diet: Implications for Brain Function and Behavior
Taetzsch A et al 2020 - Food cravings: Associations with dietary intake and metabolic health
Ayton A et al 2020 - The Western diet: a blind spot of eating disorder research? - a narrative review and recommendations for treatment and research
Teasdale S B et al 2020 - Dietary intake, food addiction and nutrition knowledge in young people with mental illness
Solmi et al. 2020 - Trajectories of Autistic Social Traits in Childhood and Adolescence and Disordered Eating Behaviours at Age 14 Years: A UK General Population Cohort Study
Hall et al 2019 - Ultra-Processed Diets Cause Excess Calorie Intake and Weight Gain: An Inpatient Randomized Controlled Trial of Ad Libitum Food Intake
Freeman C R et al 2018 - Impact of sugar on the body, brain, and behavior
Burrows T et al 2017 - Differences in Dietary Preferences, Personality and Mental Health in Australian Adults with and without Food Addiction
Schillinger et al 2016 - Do Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Cause Obesity and Diabetes? Industry and the Manufacture of Scientific Controversy
Tryon et al., 2015 - Excessive Sugar Consumption May Be a Difficult Habit to Break: A View From the Brain and Body.
Schulte et al 2015 - Which foods may be addictive?
Trivedi et al 2014 - Food-derived opioid peptides inhibit cysteine uptake with redox and epigenetic consequences
Meule et al 2014 - Food-cue affected motor response inhibition and self-reported dieting success: a pictorial affective shifting task
Lustig 2013 - Fructose: it's "alcohol without the buzz"
Colantuoni et al 2002 - Evidence that intermittent, excessive sugar intake causes endogenous opioid dependence.

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