Obesity Facts · 4 authors, 2 centres
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In a cohort of 112 adults with morbid obesity assessed using the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0, 25% met criteria for food addiction (FA). Patients with FA showed higher levels of hunger, emotional, binge, and night eating, with hunger and disinhibition as significant predictors, but no difference was found in consumption of foods combining carbohydrates and fat.
This observational cohort study examined 112 German adults with morbid obesity divided into subgroups based on the Yale Food Addiction Scale 2.0. FA prevalence was 25%. Patients meeting FA criteria showed higher levels of hunger, emotional, binge, and night eating. Hunger and disinhibition were identified as significant predictors of FA. FA was not associated with sex, age, BMI, cognitive restraint, stress level, substance use prevalence, or outcomes of a weight loss programme including BMI reduction and programme withdrawal rate. No significant difference was found in the consumption of foods combining carbohydrates and fat, or of fat or carbohydrates alone. Limitations include the small sample size relative to the large number of variables tested, reliance on self-report for food classification, use of a non-validated emotional eating measure, and limited reliability of sum scores for binge eating, emotional eating, and night eating.
