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| Title |
How Prevalent is “Food Addiction”?
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychiatry, January 2011
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00061 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Adrian Meule |
| Abstract |
Increasing evidence suggests that binge eating-related disorders could be related to addiction-like eating patterns due to the addictive potential of hyperpalatable foods. Subsequently, important implications have been derived for treatment of those disorders and even political actions. However, studies on the prevalence of food addiction are rare. Few recent studies investigated addictive eating in children, adolescents, and adults. This mini-review presents these first attempts to assess addictive eating and how prevalent addictive eating patterns were in the respective studies. It is concluded that the prevalence of food addiction is increased in obese individuals and even more so in obese patients with binge eating disorder. However, prevalence of food addiction is not sufficient to account for the obesity epidemic. Conversely, an arguably high prevalence of food addiction can also be found in under-, normal-, and overweight individuals. Future studies may investigate which factors are associated with addictive eating in non-obese individuals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 2 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 2 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 2 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 191 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 1% |
| United States | 2 | 1% |
| Pakistan | 1 | <1% |
| India | 1 | <1% |
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Canada | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 182 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 31 | 16% |
| Student > Bachelor | 30 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 24 | 13% |
| Researcher | 23 | 12% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 17 | 9% |
| Other | 38 | 20% |
| Unknown | 28 | 15% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 49 | 26% |
| Psychology | 40 | 21% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 28 | 15% |
| Neuroscience | 13 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 10 | 5% |
| Other | 16 | 8% |
| Unknown | 35 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 48. 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 06 November 2019.
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#735,716
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#358
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#3,394
of 180,267 outputs
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#3
of 36 outputs
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