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Title	The Addiction Potential of Hyperpalatable Foods
Published in	Current Drug Abuse Reviews, September 2011
DOI	10.2174/1874473711104030140
Pubmed ID	21999688
Authors	Ashley N. Gearhardt, Caroline Davis, Rachel Kuschner, Kelly D. Brownell
Abstract	Scientific interest in "food addiction" continues to grow due both to neurobiological and behavioral similarities between substance dependence and excessive food consumption. An important next step is to examine the addictive potential of highly processed foods. In this paper, we explore addiction-related changes in the modern food environment (e.g., increased potency, elevated speed of absorption), examine the historical and modern understanding of addictive substances as applied to hyperpalatable foods, and outline shared factors that increase the public health costs of both addictive drugs and certain foods.

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United States	3	60%
Unknown	2	40%

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Type	Count	As %
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals)	3	60%
Members of the public	2	40%

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Canada	3	1%
United States	1	<1%
Unknown	242	98%

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Readers by professional status	Count	As %
Student > Master	49	20%
Student > Ph. D. Student	42	17%
Student > Bachelor	37	15%
Researcher	19	8%
Student > Doctoral Student	18	7%
Other	43	17%
Unknown	38	15%

Readers by discipline	Count	As %
Psychology	58	24%
Medicine and Dentistry	44	18%
Nursing and Health Professions	28	11%
Neuroscience	23	9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences	17	7%
Other	37	15%
Unknown	39	16%

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 58. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 09 July 2021.

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#19

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