Overeating and food addiction in Major Depressive Disorder: Links to peripheral dopamine

With sedentary lifestyle and many easily accessible, inexpensive palatable foods often forming the explanation for this obesity epidemic, Wiss et al. (2018) began analyzing nutrients like sugar and how they can be contributing to obesity. Sugars are often used to make foods more appealing, which could lead to habituation, and to addiction in some cases. […]

This 2017 study explored food addiction and its association with dietary intake, personality traits and mental health issues among a total of 1344 Australian adults. The participants, who were 75.7% female, on average 39.8 years old (range 18-91) and had an average BMI of 27.7 ± 9.5, were assessed using the revised Yale Food Addiction […]