Food addiction: a valid concept?
Food addiction: a valid concept?
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DOI：
10.1038/s41386-018-0203-9
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发表时间：
2018-12-01
影响因子：
7.6
通讯作者：
Kenny, Paul J.
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作者：
Fletcher, Paul C.;Kenny, Paul J.
食物会上瘾吗？对食物上瘾意味着什么？常见的潜在神经生物学机制会导致药物和食物成瘾吗？近年来，这些令人烦恼的问题引起了相当大的兴趣和争论，这在很大程度上是由于美国、欧洲和其他经济发达地区的体重和肥胖率急剧增加所引起的主要健康问题。关于食物成瘾概念的有效性，以及一些努力控制食物摄入量的人是否可以被认为是食物成瘾者，目前还没有达成明确的共识。包括弗莱彻在内的一些人认为，食物成瘾的概念是没有根据的，因为许多吸毒成瘾的特征并没有在进食行为的背景下被发现。包括肯尼在内的其他人认为，食物和药物成瘾具有相似的特征，可能反映了共同的潜在神经机制。在这里，弗莱彻和肯尼论证了这些对立立场在食物成瘾概念上的优点。
Can food be addictive? What does it mean to be a food addict? Do common underlying neurobiological mechanisms contribute to drug and food addiction? These vexing questions have been the subject of considerable interest and debate in recent years, driven in large part by the major health concerns associated with dramatically increasing body weights and rates of obesity in the United States, Europe, and other regions with developed economies. No dear consensus has yet emerged on the validity of the concept of food addiction and whether some individuals who struggle to control their food intake can be considered food addicts. Some, including Fletcher, have argued that the concept of food addiction is unsupported, as many of the defining features of drug addiction are not seen in the context of feeding behaviors. Others, Kenny included, have argued that food and drug addiction share similar features that may reflect common underlying neural mechanisms. Here, Fletcher and Kenny argue the merits of these opposing positions on the concept of food addiction.