Advances and Future Directions in the Clinical Utility of Food Addiction

Nutrients. 2021 Feb 23;13(2):708. doi: 10.3390/nu13020708.

Stephanie E Cassin^{1

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3}, Sanjeev Sockalingam^{2

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¹ Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria St, Toronto, ON M5B 2K3, Canada.
² Department of Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON M5T 1R8, Canada.
³ Centre for Mental Health, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5G 2C4, Canada.
⁴ Bariatric Surgery Program, University Health Network, Toronto, ON M5T 2S8, Canada.
⁵ Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, 1025 Queen Street West, B1 2nd Floor, Room 2300, Toronto, ON M6J 1H4, Canada.

Abstract

The body of research examining the validity of food addiction and eating addiction far exceeds the research examining their clinical utility [...].