Prevalence of Food Addiction and its Association With Obesity in the Newfoundland Population

Food addiction symptomology, impulsivity, mood, and body mass index in people with type two diabetes

“…A 26 large difference in BMI between people with t2d who were classified as food addicts and non-27 food addicts was also observed. This research clearly implicates FA in elevated BMI and28 consequently the risk of developing t2d. Almost three quarters of our sample of people with t2d 29 met the criteria for FA; much higher than the percentage of FA reported in the non-diabetic 30 populations(Pedram et al, 2013).…”

“…being overweight if their BMI index is [25][26][27][28][29].99 kg/m 2 , or obese with a BMI of ≥30 kg/m 2 .…”

“…Cross tabulation 9 analysis of BMI classification groups (normal: 18.50-24.99 kg/m 2 ; overweight:[25][26][27][28][29].99 kg/m 2 ; 10 and obese ≥ 30 kg/m 2 ) by FA classification was significant, χ 2 (2) = 87.1, p < .001, phi = .511,11 with a large effect (Cohen 1988). As shown inFigure 1, a far greater percentage of the FA Frequency of BMI classifications by FA symptomology classification…”