Twenty Years of the Food Cravings Questionnaires: a Comprehensive Review

Meule, Adrian

doi:10.1007/s40429-020-00294-z

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“…Although strong food cravings can be found in healthy individuals, too, it has been shown that those with binge eating symptoms score higher in food craving assessments [37]. Consistent with our findings, this association is stronger for binge eating than for only obesity [35][36][37]. Innamorati et al [78] even developed a potential cut-off score (157.5) of the FCQT for identifying clinical-level binge eating.…”

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confidence: 88%

“…Similarly, several eating styles have been associated with obesity and comorbid BED in comparison with obesity without BED, such as emotional eating [22,[26][27][28][29][30], eating in response to stress [31], and lower success in dieting and restraint [32], although especially research on the role of restraint has generated inhomogeneous results [33,34]. Newer concepts such as food craving and the strong desire to eat certain foods show stronger correlations with binge eating than obesity [35][36][37]. Food addiction, which among others, describes a loss of control over eating, cravings, and continued excessive food consumption contrary to the knowledge of adverse consequences [38], is also associated with a higher frequency of binge episodes and emotional eating [39,40].…”

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Two of a Kind? Mapping the Psychopathological Space between Obesity with and without Binge Eating Disorder

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(1) Background: Obesity (OB) is a frequent co-morbidity in Binge Eating Disorder (BED), suggesting that both conditions share phenotypical features along a spectrum of eating-related behaviors. However, the evidence is inconsistent. This study aimed to comprehensively compare OB-BED patients against OB individuals without BED and healthy, normal-weight controls in general psychopathological features, eating-related phenotypes, and early life experiences. (2) Methods: OB-BED patients (n = 37), OB individuals (n = 50), and controls (n = 44) completed a battery of standardized questionnaires. Responses were analyzed using univariate comparisons and dimensionality reduction techniques (linear discriminant analysis, LDA). (3) Results: OB-BED patients showed the highest scores across assessments (e.g., depression, emotional and stress eating, food cravings, food addiction). OB-BED patients did not differ from OB individuals in terms of childhood traumatization or attachment styles. The LDA revealed a two-dimensional solution that distinguished controls from OB and OB-BED in terms of increasing problematic eating behaviors and attitudes, depression, and childhood adversities, as well as OB-BED from OB groups in terms of emotional eating tendencies and self-regulation impairments. (4) Conclusions: Findings support the idea of a shared spectrum of eating-related disorders but also highlight important distinctions relevant to identifying and treating BED in obese patients.

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Section: Eating-related Symptomatologysupporting

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confidence: 99%

Two of a Kind? Mapping the Psychopathological Space between Obesity with and without Binge Eating Disorder

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“…This was done to improve similarity to food craving definitions (e.g. Hill, 2007;Meule, 2020) by more directly including the specificity and intensity aspect into the question. Additional questions for each eating episode inquired about were related to food type (classification as snack or main meal), satisfaction (how satisfied they were with that eating episode), amount (how much they have eaten out of several food categories like sweets, carbohydrates, salty snacks, fruits) and how much that eating episode matched to their dieting goal.…”

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Does stress eat away at you or make you eat? EMA measures of stress predict day to day food craving and perceived food intake as a function of trait stress-eating

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Psychology & Health

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Eating behaviour can be driven by non-homeostatic factors like stress. Both increased and decreased food intake in response to stress has been documented, but it has remained difficult to identify a trait that predicts who shows either pattern. Thus, we collected naturalistic data from Ecological Momentary Assessment in combination with the trait-level Salzburg Stress Eating Scale (SSES). In study 1, 97 individuals completed the SSES and 6 daily reports about stress, food craving and perceived food intake across 8 days, whereas in study 2, 83 diet-interested participants completed the same measures at 4 daily prompts across 14 days. Consistent across both studies, multilevel modelling revealed that participants with high SSES-scores showed relatively more positive intra-day stress-craving relationships than those with low SSESscores. On the day level, stress also predicted perceived food intake as a function of SSES-scores. Controlling for negative affect did not alter results. Results support an individual difference model of stress-eating where decrease vs increase of eating depends on SSES-scores. In affected individuals stress influences simultaneous food craving but might exhibit cumulative or delayed effects on food intake. Furthermore, the SSES provides a valid instrument for identifying at risk individuals and for tailoring interventions.

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“…The FCI-Br was validated by Medeiros et al (2017) and was created based on the Food Craving Inventory (White et al, 2002), which categorizes and identifies foods that are most related to craving, investigating the frequency of these episodes in the previous month. The FCI-Br consists of 23 foods commonly related to craving, divided into three categories: high fat content (pizza, fried pastry, bacon, salty packaged snacks, lasagna, sandwich/hamburger, coxinha, and French fries), sweets (cookies; dulce de leche; chocolate; condensed milk pudding; candy such as hard candy, lollipop, and jelly beans; ice cream; brigadeiro; sweet pie; and cake), and traditional foods (bread, barbecue/grilled meat, farofa, cheese, beans/feijoada, and steak) (Medeiros et al, 2016a;Meule, 2020).…”

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Effects of Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anxiety and Eating Behavior—A Longitudinal Study

2021

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As social animals, humans need to live in groups. This contact with conspecifics is essential for their evolution and survival. Among the recommendations to reduce transmission of the new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) responsible for COVID-19 are social distancing and home confinement. These measures may negatively affect the social life and, consequently, the emotional state and eating behavior of individuals. We assessed the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the anxiety, premenstrual symptoms, and eating behavior of young women. Data collection was conducted in person (prepandemic—from March to December 2019) and online (during the pandemic—August 2020). A total of 71 participants, average age of 21.26 years (SD = 0.41), took part in the study. Trait anxiety during the pandemic was significantly lower than in the prepandemic period. Investigation of the “anxiety/stress” symptom of the Premenstrual Symptoms Screening Tool (PSST) revealed that this symptom was more severe before the pandemic. There was a decline in the desire for sweet and fatty foods during the pandemic. However, craving for traditional foods rose significantly in the same period. Uncontrolled and emotional eating were significantly lower during the pandemic. The results suggest that the pandemic may have had a positive impact on anxiety and eating behavior of the participants, which may be due to differences between urban and rural populations and the latter living with their families. These findings are important for raising a discussion regarding the effects of the current environment on the regulation of cognitive and dietary adaptations.

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Twenty Years of the Food Cravings Questionnaires: a Comprehensive Review

Cited by 25 publications

References 115 publications

Two of a Kind? Mapping the Psychopathological Space between Obesity with and without Binge Eating Disorder

Two of a Kind? Mapping the Psychopathological Space between Obesity with and without Binge Eating Disorder

Does stress eat away at you or make you eat? EMA measures of stress predict day to day food craving and perceived food intake as a function of trait stress-eating

Effects of Social Distancing During the COVID-19 Pandemic on Anxiety and Eating Behavior—A Longitudinal Study

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