I’ve been thinking a lot recently about food addiction. Earlier this year, I co-led a workshop with sugar addiction expert Dr. Nicole Avena and later participated in a panel discussion on the topic ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A recent poll found that 13% of adults aged 50 to 80 years showed signs of addiction to highly processed foods.

Food Addiction is currently not listed in the DSM-5 framework, a diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric ...

Addicts found eating nutritious food helped them beat their addiction, with one person in the programme saying: "I've lost a ...

Dr. Peeke offers a prescription to get food addicts on the road to recovery. Sept. 24, 2012— -- Tara Costa calls herself a recovering addict, but the substance she abused was food. Costa wasn't ...

Can we really be addicted to food? After all, we need food to survive. Our brains are wired to experience pleasure from eating which is what motivates us to consume enough energy—clearly a survival ...

Ultra-processed foods -- such as chips, many cereals and many packaged snacks -- may be linked to changes in the way we learn, remember and feel. Help may be on the way for junk food addicts. Recent ...

Women who suffer physical or sexual abuse as children are around twice as likely to grow up to be food addicts who comfort eat, a study has revealed. Previous studies have shown that childhood abuse ...

More American's die from obesity every year than all cancers combined, and a leading cause could be food addiction. Dr Pamela Peeke, author of the new book The Hunger Fix, explains that food can be as ...

Independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr has said he wants to create tech-free “wellness farms” for those struggling with addiction to “reparent” them away from using both legal and ...