Food addiction is not officially included as a recognized diagnostic category in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5). However, it generally encompasses ...

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The mother-of-three, from from Fleet, Lincolnshire, began using food as a coping mechanism after her parents got divorced when she was a child. Before long, it was an 'addiction'. By the age of ...

There’s controversy around the word ‘addictive.’ The questions surrounding food addiction are “a very big minefield,” Dr. Small said. In a way, she said, food needs to be addictive.

A recent research that studied the brain scan of some obese people reported that obese people might get addicted to food in the similar fashion as a drug addict to drugs. A recent research that ...

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“I turned to food to help cope with difficulties in life and didn’t realise at the time that it was an addiction.” As well as wanting to adopt, Hannah, who is a member of Leeds City ...