How Relevant is Food Craving to Obesity and Its Treatment?

How Relevant is Food Craving to Obesity and Its Treatment?

Cravings represent strong motivational states that are characterized by intense desires typically relating to the anticipation of consuming pleasure-producing substances or engaging in hedonic behaviors. In considering food craving and the extent of its applicability to food, a brief review of the history of craving within a culture-sensitive framework appears warranted. Many cultures appear to...

Gender-related Differences in Food Craving and Obesity

Food craving is often defined as a strong desire to eat. Much work has shown that it consistently and prospectively predicts eating and weight-related outcomes, contributing to the growing obesity epidemic. Although there are clear gender differences in the prevalence and health consequences of obesity, relatively little recent work has investigated gender differences in craving, or any sex-hor...

Food craving: new contributions on its assessment, moderators, and consequences

Boris C. Rodríguez-Martín* and Adrian Meule 1 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, Central University “Marta Abreu” of Las Villas, Santa Clara, Cuba 2 Institute of Psychology, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany 3 Hospital for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, LWL University Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum, Hamm, Germany *Correspondence: [email protected]; borisrod@gmai...

How Food Industries Can Help in Preventing Childhood Obesity and Metabolic Syndrome?

Ventral and Dorsal Striatum Networks in Obesity: Link to Food Craving and Weight Gain.

BACKGROUND The food addiction model proposes that obesity overlaps with addiction in terms of neurobiological alterations in the striatum and related clinical manifestations (i.e., craving and persistence of unhealthy habits). Therefore, we aimed to examine the functional connectivity of the striatum in excess-weight versus normal-weight subjects and to determine the extent of the association b...