The body asks and the mind judges: Food cravings in eating disorders

Oliveira, Jônatas de; Córdas, Taki Athanássios

doi:10.1016/j.encep.2020.01.003

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“…Many people today live in an obesogenic food environment, and are constantly exposed to low-nutritive-value yet appetitive foods—for example, foods containing large amounts of sugar and fat [ 73 ]. These environmental conditions paired with internal factors (e.g., impulsivity) could lead to higher food evaluation (e.g., food cravings), which might aggravate dysfunctional eating behaviors such as bulimia nervosa or binge eating [ 3 ]. Interventions aimed at lowering the evaluation of appetitive foods, therefore, may help people to regulate their eating behavior or body weight.…”

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“…Dysfunctional eating behaviors, such as overeating and binge eating, can be aggravated by many factors, including higher evaluations (e.g., greater craving or wanting) of high-energy-density foods (e.g., foods that contain large amounts of sugar and fat) [ 2 ]. A recent systematic review proposed that both external (e.g., obesogenic environment) and internal (e.g., anxious/depressive states, impulsivity) factors could contribute to the high evaluations of high-calorie foods [ 3 ]. Critically, according to the incentive sensitization theory [ 4 ] and the dynamic vulnerability model of obesity [ 5 , 6 ], increased incentive salience of high-calorie food cues and the activity of the brain’s reward system in response to high-calorie food cues can predict overeating and weight gain.…”

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Food-Specific Inhibition Training for Food Devaluation: A Meta-Analysis

Yang

Qi²,

Morys

et al. 2022

Nutrients

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Theories have suggested that food-specific inhibition training could lead to food devaluation which, in turn, may help people to regulate their eating behavior. In this review, we have synthesized the current literature on this topic by conducting a meta-analysis of studies investigating the effects of food-specific inhibition training on food evaluation. We identified 24 studies—with 36 independent samples, 77 effect sizes, and 3032 participants—that met our inclusion criteria. Effect sizes were analyzed using the robust variance estimation in random effects meta-regression technique. The results indicate that food-specific inhibition training can lead to statistically significant reductions in food evaluation. More specifically, it was observed that the effects of training on participants’ food evaluation differed according to the type of evaluation; food-specific inhibition training significantly decreased participants’ explicit food evaluation, but not their implicit food evaluation. However, because most of the included studies focused on trained food items and short-term outcomes in normal-weight samples, more research is needed on the continuance of the training effects, as well as on the extent to which effects can be generalized to untrained food items or different populations (e.g., overweight or obese individuals).

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Food-Specific Inhibition Training for Food Devaluation: A Meta-Analysis

Yang

Qi²,

Morys

et al. 2022

Nutrients

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“…Overeating behavior in general, and binge eating in particular have both been linked to food craving (Sobik et al, 2005;White and Grilo, 2005;Chao et al, 2014;Innamorati et al, 2014;Oliveira and Cordás, 2020), i.e., the intense desire to eat specific food (Weingarten and Elston, 1990;Hill, 2007). Food cravings are accountable for up to 11% of the variance in weight gain and they are positively associated with BMI (for a metaanalysis see Boswell and Kober, 2016).…”

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Differences in Food Craving in Individuals With Obesity With and Without Binge Eating Disorder

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Pedersen

2021

Front. Psychol.

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Overeating behavior is supposedly a major contributing factor to weight gain and obesity. Binge eating disorder (BED) with reoccurring episodes of excessive overeating is strongly associated with obesity. Learning models of overeating behavior and BED assume that mere confrontation with food leads to a conditioned response that is experienced as food craving. Accordingly, individuals with obesity and BED were shown to have high trait food cravings. To date, little is known about differences in state food cravings and cue reactivity at the sight of palatable food in individuals with obesity and BED compared to individuals with obesity without BED. Therefore, the aim of our study was to examine differences in cue-induced, state and trait food cravings in people with obesity with and without BED. We found that all aspects of food cravings were more prevalent in individuals with obesity and BED than in individuals without BED. By implementing a food cue reactivity paradigm, our results show that individuals with obesity with BED have more cue-induced cravings than individuals with obesity without BED. Moreover, these cue-induced cravings in individuals with obesity and BED were highest for high-fat and high-sugar foods as opposed to low-calorie foods. Thus, our results emphasize the role of increased cue reactivity and craving at the sight of palatable foods in individuals with obesity and BED. Hence, our findings support etiological models of conditioned binge eating and are in line with interventions targeting cue reactivity in BED.

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“…Food Cravings (FC) is the term commonly used to describe sensations related to an intense desire for specific consumption [1], and there are features that we separate into internal and external aspects related to FC [2]. The internal ones would be dietary restraint, food reward, impulsivity/inflexibility, emotions/thoughts/feelings about food, hunger/satiety/appetite and symptoms of anxiety/ depression.…”

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Journal of Experimental Neurology

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The body asks and the mind judges: Food cravings in eating disorders

Cited by 12 publications

References 81 publications

Food-Specific Inhibition Training for Food Devaluation: A Meta-Analysis

Food-Specific Inhibition Training for Food Devaluation: A Meta-Analysis

Differences in Food Craving in Individuals With Obesity With and Without Binge Eating Disorder

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