Does food addiction exist? Research finds food addicts lacking psychological inhibition
Women with weight problems were more impulsive than average in a food-related psychology test, a new research paper has shown.
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Women with weight problems were more impulsive than average in a food-related psychology test, a new research paper has shown.
This suggested that they are more instinctively stimulated by images of food as well as lacking contemplative will power. Further, some women reported food craving even if they had eaten recently, a symptom of possible food addiction.
Tests were run either three hours after eating or just after meals. The researchers found that several women with weight problems said the test had provoked food craving, regardless of how recently they had eaten.
"This suggests that some people may have an instinctive, psychological predisposition to binge eating," Prof. Voegele said.
"All addictions are similar in that the sufferer craves to excess the feel-good buzz they receive from chemical neurotransmitters produced when they eat, gamble, smoke, have sex or take drugs," commented Claus Voegele, Professor of Clinical and Health Psychology at the University of Luxembourg.
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