Is binge eating experienced as an addiction?

Cassin, Stephanie E.; Ranson, Kristin M. von

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2007.06.012

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“…We also believe that sound clinical and scientific evidence supports this viewpoint. For example, Cassin and von Ranson [29] found that 94% of their adult BED sample described themselves as "food addicts" or "compulsive overeaters" and met criteria for substance-dependence disorder when the term substance referred to "binge eating. "…”

Section: Binge Eating and Food Addictionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Associations with Overeating and Obesity

Davis

2010

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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In the past decade, we have become increasingly aware of strong associations between overweight/obesity and symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in children, adolescents, and adults. This review addresses the prevalence of the comorbidity and discusses some of the mechanisms that could account for their relationship. It is suggested that the inattentive and impulsive behaviors that characterize ADHD could contribute to overeating in our current food environment, with its emphasis on fast food consumption and its many food temptations. It is also proposed-based on the compelling evidence that foods high in fat, sugar, and salt are as addictive as some drugs of abuse-that excessive food consumption could be a form of self-medication. This view conforms with the well-established evidence that drug use and abuse are substantially higher among those with ADHD than among the general population.

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Section: Binge Eating and Food Addictionmentioning

confidence: 98%

Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Associations with Overeating and Obesity

Davis

2010

Curr Psychiatry Rep

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“…Because they share etiologic and phenomenological features, substance use disorders and gambling disorder are now classified together in the Substance-related and Other Addictive Disorders section of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5) (American Psychiatric Association 2013). Disordered eating, such as binge eating disorder, is often conceptualized from an addiction perspective (Mudry et al 2011;Cassin and von Ranson 2007;Wilson 2010). We previously explored the links between drinking and gambling among university students (Hodgins and Racicot 2013).…”

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Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Hodgins

Ranson

Montpetit

2015

Int J Ment Health Addiction

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Problematic drinking, gambling and eating are elevated among undergraduate university students but our understanding of how they are linked is limited. In this study, drinking, gambling and eating were assessed across a number of dimensions: drinking and gambling involvement, associated negative consequences, impairment of control, and motives; and disordered eating concerns and behaviours, loss of control over eating, and eating expectancies (N = 301). Canonical correlation analysis revealed that drinking and gambling were linked through a factor of general problematic involvement (R = 0.43): students who drank more, experienced more negative consequences and stronger social and coping motives for drinking, also had greater gambling involvement, impaired control, negative consequences, and stronger motives for gambling. These results are broadly consistent with a general problem syndrome model of underlying vulnerabilities. Results showed that there was also a small relationship between the alcohol and the eating variables (R = 0.40), reflecting a negative relationship between problematic alcohol involvement and a dimension of eating attitudes and behaviors. These results are not fully consistent with a problem syndrome model and instead suggest eating and alcohol serve different purposes among students, and that there is not a unitary relationship between eating attitudes and behaviors and alcohol involvement and motives. Finally, we observed no link between eating and gambling variables, which suggests these behaviors, are distinct. Men reported more alcohol and gambling-related involvement and concerns and women more eating-related concerns but principal component analysis suggested that, despite different levels of involvement, associations among these variables were similar for both genders.

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“…36 In recent years, we have also become aware of strong links between ADHD and obesity 37 Fan association of particular interest because of their individual connectedness to addictive behaviors. Therefore, some cases of obesity may be the consequence of a food addiction 38 that occurs, such as drug dependence, with greater prevalence in those with ADHD. Another unifying thread in these syndromes is the converging evidence that dopamine pathways play an important role in the expression of impulsivity.…”

Section: Attention Deficit/hyperactivity Disorder (Adhd) Traitsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychobiological traits in the risk profile for overeating and weight gain

Davis

2009

Int J Obes

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Our dramatically changed food environmentFsince periods in our history when food sources were highly constrainedFhas presented new challenges for obesity research. For example, these alterations have strongly emphasized the physiological differences between the homeostatic and the hedonic regulation of food intakeFthe latter being largely responsible for the pronounced increase in obesity in the past few decades. There is also increasing agreement that compulsive overeating shares many parallels with addiction disorders such as drug abuse. These factors have also fostered a renewed interest in identifying individual differences in personality and motivational systems that increase the risk for overeating and weight gain in our population. Reward sensitivity has been the focus of a recent body of compelling research, with evidence favoring two seemingly opposite points of view. On the one hand, studies have found support for a link between low reward sensitivity and obesity, whereas other evidence suggests that a strong appetitive motivation leads to overeating and weight gain. Arguments are provided to reconcile these apparently disparate theories. Finally, the role of impulsivity and its links with symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder are discussed, as well as their respective roles in the risk profile for obesity.

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Is binge eating experienced as an addiction?

Cited by 179 publications

References 16 publications

Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Associations with Overeating and Obesity

Attention-deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: Associations with Overeating and Obesity

Problem Drinking, Gambling and Eating Among Undergraduate University Students. What are the Links?

Psychobiological traits in the risk profile for overeating and weight gain

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