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Psychiatria Danubina, Vol. 27 No. 1, 2015.

Review article

FOOD ADDICTION-DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT

Ivan Dimitrijević ; University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Nada Popović ; Center for Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Vera Sabljak ; Center for Anaesthesiology and Reanimatology Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Vesna Škodrić-Trifunović ; University of Belgrade, School of Medicine, Clinic for Psychiatry, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia; Climic for Pulmonary Diseases, Clinical Center of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia
Nina Dimitrijević ; Health Center Zemun, Zemun, Serbia

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Abstract

In this article we summarized the recent research of the food addiction, diagnosis, treatment and prevention, which is carried out
in this area. The concept of food addiction is new and complex, but proven to be very important for understanding and solving the
problem of obesity. First part of this paper emphasizes the neurological studies, whose results indicate the similarity of brain
processes that are being activated during drug abuse and during eating certain types of food. In this context, different authors speak
of “hyper-palatable”, industrial food, saturated with salt, fat and sugar, which favor an addiction. In the section on diagnostic and
instruments constructed for assessing the degree of dependence, main diagnostic tool is standardized Yale Food Addiction Scale
constructed by Ashley Gearhardt, and her associates. Since 2009, when it was first published, this scale is used in almost all
researches in this area and has been translated into several languages. Finally, distinguish between prevention and treatment of food
addiction was made. Given that there were similarities with other forms of addictive behavior, the researchers recommend the
application of traditional addiction treatment.

Keywords

obesity - food addiction - Yale food addiction scale

Hrčak ID:

162382

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/162382

Publication date:

9.3.2015.

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