Can food addiction replace binge eating assessment in obesity clinics?

Can food addiction replace binge eating assessment in obesity clinics?

Introduction: Food addiction (FA) is a new terminology that uses the similarities between the craving for food and drug addiction. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is a recently developed tool that assesses the various symptomatology of FA and diagnoses FA when there are ⩾3 symptoms with clinica...

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Main Authors: Alaa Youssef Ahmed, Amany Mohammed Sayed, Asmaa Abdelfattah Alshahat, Eman Amin Abd Elaziz
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-04-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics
Subjects:
Food addiction
Binge eating
Obesity
Adolescents
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110863016300441

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