What Is The Evidence That Food Addiction Exists? - 2016 COAST/SSEW Symposium - Food & Addiction: Environment, Policy, and Individual Factors

1/3/2017; 53 minutes

Ashley Gearhardt developed the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) to operationalize addictive-like eating behaviors, which has recently been linked with more frequent binge eating episodes in clinical populations, increased prevalence of obesity and patterns of neural activation implicated in other addictive behaviors. Recorded on 10/27/2016. (#31671)

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