The effect of hunger and satiety on mood-related food craving

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%; […]

This 2018 review presented the multifactorial social, neurobehavioral and metabolic determinants of food intake that influence obesity risk to promote food craving and excessive food intake. The determinants included rewarding foods that stimulate brain reward motivation and stress circuits to influence eating behaviors, as well as stress hormones that hijack the brain’s emotional (limbic) and […]