Low carbohydrate ketogenic therapy as a metabolic treatment for binge eating and ultraprocessed food addiction

This 2019 study tested whether random access to palatable food would trigger similar addiction-like responses as observed under a fixed schedule. Providing food at a fixed time it thought to make access to food predictable, and palatable foods appear in a random manner outside the laboratory. Muñoz-Escobar et al. (2019) randomly assigned rats to one […]

This 2011 article by Macht and Simons provides a summary of the research findings on emotional eating, which has been stated to be the fairly common act of eating to reduce the intensity of one’s negative emotions. Individuals differ in how much food relieves mood, the causes of which are not known, but links between […]