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Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship?
Existing research suggests that there is an overlap between binge eating disorder (BED) and the construct of ‘food addiction’ (FA). The objective of this study was to determine the overlapping features of BED and FA through a comparison of the individual scales of commonly used tools including the B...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28805749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs7030054 |
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author | Burrows, Tracy Skinner, Janelle McKenna, Rebecca Rollo, Megan |
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description | Existing research suggests that there is an overlap between binge eating disorder (BED) and the construct of ‘food addiction’ (FA). The objective of this study was to determine the overlapping features of BED and FA through a comparison of the individual scales of commonly used tools including the Binge Eating Scale (BES) and the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) in a sample of Australian adults. Adults (>18 years of age) were invited to complete an anonymous online survey on FA. Binge eating was assessed through the BES and addictive eating behaviours were assessed through the YFAS (n = 1344). The prevalence and severity of both FA and binge eating increased across weight categories. The overall correlation between the total score from the BES and FA symptoms was r = 0.76, p < 0.001; for females it was r = 0.77, p < 0.001, and for males it was r = 0.65, p < 0.001. Total BES score and the BES emotion factor were most often associated with FA symptoms, as was demonstrated to produce stronger correlations with FA symptoms. In contrast, the BES behaviour factor was less strongly associated to FA with the majority of correlations <0.6. This study demonstrates the overlap between BED and FA, and highlights the possible unique differences between the forms of disordered eating. |
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spelling | pubmed-56180622017-09-29 Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? Burrows, Tracy Skinner, Janelle McKenna, Rebecca Rollo, Megan Behav Sci (Basel) Article Existing research suggests that there is an overlap between binge eating disorder (BED) and the construct of ‘food addiction’ (FA). The objective of this study was to determine the overlapping features of BED and FA through a comparison of the individual scales of commonly used tools including the Binge Eating Scale (BES) and the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) in a sample of Australian adults. Adults (>18 years of age) were invited to complete an anonymous online survey on FA. Binge eating was assessed through the BES and addictive eating behaviours were assessed through the YFAS (n = 1344). The prevalence and severity of both FA and binge eating increased across weight categories. The overall correlation between the total score from the BES and FA symptoms was r = 0.76, p < 0.001; for females it was r = 0.77, p < 0.001, and for males it was r = 0.65, p < 0.001. Total BES score and the BES emotion factor were most often associated with FA symptoms, as was demonstrated to produce stronger correlations with FA symptoms. In contrast, the BES behaviour factor was less strongly associated to FA with the majority of correlations <0.6. This study demonstrates the overlap between BED and FA, and highlights the possible unique differences between the forms of disordered eating. MDPI 2017-08-14 /pmc/articles/PMC5618062/ /pubmed/28805749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs7030054 Text en © 2017 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Burrows, Tracy Skinner, Janelle McKenna, Rebecca Rollo, Megan Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title | Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title_full | Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title_fullStr | Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title_full_unstemmed | Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title_short | Food Addiction, Binge Eating Disorder, and Obesity: Is There a Relationship? |
title_sort | food addiction, binge eating disorder, and obesity: is there a relationship? |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5618062/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28805749 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/bs7030054 |
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