Bridging the Gap Between Food Addiction and Eating Disorder Treatment
What happens when food addiction frameworks meet eating disorder care and treatment? In this 5th and final installment of this food addiction series, I take a closer look at what we know, what we don’t, with some thoughts on where we go from here. If you haven’t already, I encourage you to start from […]
Rethinking Food Addiction Research: Critiques, Concerns & Questions
My Concerns with the Food Addiction Model: Insights from Research and Clinical Practice If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend the first three articles in this series: Part 1 - What is Food Addiction and How is it Diagnosed? Part 2 - Linking Dietary Restriction and Food Addiction Part 3 - Evolutions in the Food [...]Evolutions in the Food Addiction Research Landscape: Then and Now
In part 3 of this series, I am detailing some of the changes and advances in the field of “Food Addiction” over the past 20 or so years. If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend the first two articles in this series: Part one - What is Food Addiction and How is it Diagnosed? Part [...]Linking Dietary Restriction and Food Addiction
This is part 2 in the series of articles on Food Addiction and tackles the interplay between Dietary Restriction and Food Addiction. If you missed the first installment, I strongly encourage you to pause andread part one, What is Food Addiction and How is it Diagnosed? I describe how food addiction is being defined and diagnosed [...]What is Food Addiction and How is it Diagnosed?
A 5-part series on Food Addiction. Last year I resurrected my most popular blog posts from the past and right at the tippy top was my post on food addiction. And I received resounding feedback that many of you would like a food addiction update from me. Interestingly, this is something I’ve been working on [...]Retro Review: Do I Stand By What I Wrote on Sugar Addiction?
Six years ago, I wrote an article about sugar addiction that to this day is one of my most visited blog posts. I embarked on a fun little project this past summer of revisiting my most clicked on blog posts of all time. You may remember that the 3rd most popular post was about Dannon [...]Sugar Addiction: A Summary Of The Science
With Valentine’s Day around the corner and New Year’s Resolutions just behind us, I figured it was as good a time as any to talk about the concept of food addiction or more specifically, sugar addiction. I have been interested in the science of food addiction for about 6 years now. My interest stems from […]
Help! I Am Addicted to Food
I have blogged about food addiction before. But I recently had the opportunity to serve as a guest on my colleague and friend Julie Duffy Dillon’s Love, Food Podcast. (If you haven’t already subscribed, I totally encourage you to do so!) In this episode, Julie and I tease through a letter written by a woman […]
Food Addiction & Research
**I wrote this post nearly a year ago and thought it was timely to re-post. Enjoy! A few weeks ago a wrote a post on food addiction and mentioned that I was working on a blog post for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics blog. It came out last week and I wanted to re-post […]
Food Addiction and Research
A few weeks ago a wrote a post on food addiction and mentioned that I was working on a blog post for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics blog. It came out last week and I wanted to re-post it here but with a couple of other thoughts. One of the things I love most […]
Food Addiction: A Prelude
Food addiction is a hot topic right now. I’m currently working on a blog post on food addiction for The Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and look forward to sharing it with you after its release. But in the interim I thought I’d give you a taste by sharing with you some intriguing research. The […]