Food cravings and body weight: A conditioning response

This 2018 narrative review describes the possible causes of emotional eating (EE) and EE’s relationship with depression and obesity, and discusses the significance of these findings for the management of obesity. Van Strien (2018) points out that high dietary restraint, poor interoceptive awareness, alexithymia (difficulty in experiencing, expressing, and describing emotional responses), emotion dysregulation and […]

The aim of this 2021 study was to inspect the link between ultra-processed food and disordered eating, by using the recently introduced NOVA classification to assess the level of industrial food processing in the patients’ diet. Set in a specialist eating disorder service, Ayton et al. (2020) were able to randomly select data from the […]