Emotions and food consumption: Emotional eating behavior in a European population.

Ayaz et al. (2018) investigated 851 healthy adults living in Ankara (aged 19-65) to test whether having food addiction has a modulatory role in eating habit, abnormal eating behaviour, obesity and the number of food addiction symptoms. Using the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) 11.4% of the sample were identified as “food addicted” (F: 13.0%; […]

Since the underlying processes behind the connection between negative mood and binge eating are not yet fully understood, this 2020 study examined the effect of mood (negative/neutral) and state of food deprivation (hunger vs. satiety) of 33 normal-weight females (mean age = 25.1 years, mean BMI = 21.6) on their level of food craving. The […]