Kawada, T. (2020). Food addiction and psycho-physiological condition in patients with type 2 diabetes. Acta diabetologica, 57(10), 1271–1272. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00592-020-01583-9 From the letter to the editor’s text: “Associations of food addiction with metabolic control, medical complications and depression among patients with type 2 diabetes and the relationship between diabetic retinopathy and psychosocial functioning is also observed.”
Food addiction in young adult residents of Russia: Associations with emotional and anthropometric characteristics
Borisenkov, M. F., Popov, S. V., Pecherkina, A. A., Dorogina, O. I., Martinson, E. A., Vetosheva, V. I., Gubin, D. G., Solovieva, S. V., Turovinina, E. F., & Symaniuk, E. E. (2020). Food addiction in young adult residents of Russia: Associations with emotional and anthropometric characteristics. Eur Eat Disord Rev, 28(4), 465-472. https://doi.org/10.1002/erv.2731 Highlight: “The prevalence of Food Addiction in the current sample was 13.2%.”
Food Addiction and psycho-physiological condition in patients with type 2 diabetes
Kawada, T. (2020). Food Addiction and psycho-physiological condition in patients with type 2 diabetes. Acta Diabetol, 1271¯1272• https://doi.org/10.10007/s00592-020-01583-9 Letter to the editor kawada2020 .pdf
Mental and physical health-related quality of life and food addiction after obesity surgery: The first 2-year outputs
Ozyurek, P., & Cogalan, S. (2020). Mental and physical health-related quality of life and food addiction after obesity surgery: The first 2-year outputs. Perspectives in Psychiatric Care. https://doi.org/10.1111/ppc.12579 From the research article’s abstract: “Purpose: The aim of the study was to investigate mental and physical health-related quality of life and food addiction of patients who underwent obesity surgery. Design and Methods: A cross-sectional and descriptive design study was included 80 adult patients who completed the Yale Food Addiction Scale and the 36-Item Short-Form Health Survey. Findings: It was found that mental and physical health mean scores of the patients were 61.48 and 72.43, respectively. None of the patients were food-addicted. Practice Implications: Patients were moderate level in the mental and physical health and were no food addiction in the first 2 years. It is thought that mental health support and follow-up following postoperative should be routinely.”
Validity of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children (YFAS-C): Classical test theory and item response theory of the Persian YFAS-C
Lin, C. Y., Imani, V., Griffiths, M. D., & Pakpour, A. H. (2021). Validity of the Yale Food Addiction Scale for Children (YFAS-C): Classical test theory and item response theory of the Persian YFAS-C. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 26(5), 1457–1466. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-020-00956-x From the research article’s abstract: “To examine whether the child/adolescent version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS-C) is valid to assess the Iranian adolescents who are overweight. After using an internationally standardized method to translate the YFAS-C into Persian, 1186 overweight/obese adolescents aged between 13 and 18 years participated in the present study [666 males; mean age = 15.5 (SD = 1.9) years; zBMI = 2.5 (1.0) kg/m²]. All the participants completed the Persian YFAS-C alongside Persian versions of the following scales: Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire (EDEQ), Clinical Impairment Assessment (CIA), Binge Eating Scale (BES), Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-26), and Depression, Anxiety, Stress Scale (DASS-21). At the scale level, confirmatory factor analysis verified the single-factor structure of the Persian YFAS-C. Additionally, the Persian YFAS-C had promising properties regarding internal consistency (KR20 = 0.81),
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Meets Virtual Reality: The Potential of Integrating Brain Stimulation With a Simulative Technology for Food Addiction
Stramba-Badiale, C., Mancuso, V., Cavedoni, S., Pedroli, E., Cipresso, P., & Riva, G. (2020). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Meets Virtual Reality: The Potential of Integrating Brain Stimulation With a Simulative Technology for Food Addiction. Frontiers in Neuroscience, 14, 720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00720 From the research article’s abstract: “The aim of this perspective is to propose and discuss the integration of transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) over the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex with virtual reality (VR) food exposure for therapeutic interventions for food addiction. “Food addiction” is a dysfunctional eating pattern which is typically observed in eating disorders (ED) such as bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder. Food addiction has been compared to substance use disorder due to the necessity of consuming a substance (food) and the presence of a dependence behavior. In recent years, VR has been applied in the treatment of ED because it triggers psychological and physiological responses through food exposure in place of real stimuli.
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Meets Virtual Reality The Potential of Integrating Brain Stimulation With a Simulative Technology for Food Addiction
Stramba-Badiale, C., Mancuso, V., Cavedoni, S., Pedroli, E., Cipresso, P. , & Riva, G. (2020). Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Meets Virtual Reality: The Potential of Integrating Brain Stimulation With a Simulative Technology for Food Addiction. Frontiers in neuroscience, 14, 720. https://doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.00720 Discussion piece, not actual research stramba-badiale2020 .pdf
Effect of Diet on Insulin Resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome
Shang Y, Zhou H, Hu M, Feng H. Effect of Diet on Insulin Resistance in Polycystic Ovary Syndrome.J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2020 Oct 1;105(10):dgaa425. https://doi.org/10.1210/clinem/dgaa425 PMID: 32621748 Overall, our findings suggest that diet is an effective, acceptable and safe intervention for relieving IR, and professional dietary advice should be offered to all PCOS patients. Based on this review, our results suggest that diet benefits IR and weight management in women with PCOS. The DASH diet and calorie-restricted diets might be the optimal choices for reducing IR and improving weight management. Additionally, the effects were associated with the course of treatment. Overall, diet is an effective, acceptable and safe intervention, providing options for patients who cannot tolerate the gastrointestinal side effects induced by metformin. However, due to the limited number of studies and the small sample size included, the results should be interpreted with caution. shang2020 .pdf
Examining the construct validity of food addiction severity specifiers
Wiedemann, A. A., Carr, M. M., Ivezaj, V., & Barnes, R. D. (2020). Examining the construct validity of food addiction severity specifiers. Eating and Weight Disorders – Studies on Anorexia, Bulimia and Obesity, 26, 1503–1509. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-020-00957-w From the research article’s abstract: “Purpose Food addiction (FA) is related to greater body mass index (BMI), eating-disorder psychopathology, food craving, and psychosocial impairment. Less is known regarding the utility of the FA severity specifiers, as measured by the number of symptoms endorsed on the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS 2.0). Methods Participants (N = 1854) were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk to complete an online survey on eating behaviors. Participants completed self-report measures assessing FA, eating-disorder psychopathology (Eating Disorder Examination Questionnaire), and food craving (Food Craving Inventory). Based on the YFAS 2.0 specifiers, participants were classified into four FA groups: No FA (n = 1643), mild (n = 40), moderate (n = 55), and severe (n = 116).
Food Addiction Mediates the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Body Mass Index in Taiwan Young Adults
Lin, Y. S., Tung, Y. T., Yen, Y. C., & Chien, Y. W. (2020). Food Addiction Mediates the Relationship between Perceived Stress and Body Mass Index in Taiwan Young Adults. Nutrients, 12(7), 1951. https://doi.org/10.3390/nu12071951 From the research article’s abstract: “Perceived stress is the degree of stress experienced by an individual in the face of a stressor. Studies have shown that stress affects emotions, leads to behavioral changes, and is likely to trigger physical illnesses. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), stress is classified as a health epidemic of the 21st century; in the meantime, the percentage of adults being overweight and with obesity has continued to grow after reaching 38.9% in 2016. Hence, it is unclear whether perceived stress has become a factor affecting progressive obesity and whether food addiction (FA) is an intermediate factor. The purposes of this study were to (1) investigate the FA prevalence among young adults in Taiwan, (2) understand correlations among perceived stress, FA, and the body mass index (BMI), and (3) determine the potential mediating effect of FA due to perceived stress on BMI.