Brian of Petaluma compares his craving for food to "a heroin addict living in the gutter." Susan of Santa Rosa talks about "using food for a fix." They are members of FA, shorthand for Food Addicts in ...

If a well-intentioned colleague brings in a homemade cake to celebrate a birthday, are you someone who can enjoy a slice and then move on with your day? Or are you someone who, faced with the sight, ...

Although food addiction is not medically recognized, ultra-processed foods, with their excess sugar, salt, and fat, often prompt overconsumption with addict-like behavior. They work through ...

Discover differences between food addiction and binge eating disorder. Learn key signs, causes, and treatment options to help you regain control of your health ...

Compulsive eaters may have a specific type of bacteria in their gut, research has found. These bacteria—known as Proteobacteria—were found in large numbers in the guts of humans and mice with food ...

What is a food addiction? Having heard several people explain their inability to lose weight due to this problem, I searched out the answers on, where else? The Internet. It appears there are ...

Are cookies and chips the new cigarettes? And soda, breakfast cereals and ice cream the new opioids? In his new book, “Diet, Drugs, and Dopamine: The New Science of Achieving a Healthy Weight” ...

App and social network helped obese youths lose weight stigma-free. May 12, 2012— -- An anonymous social networking website, with an accompanying smartphone app, seemed to help obese youths lose ...

In early April, prominent National Institutes of Health nutrition scientist Kevin Hall took early retirement at the age of 54, citing administrative censorship as the main reason. Why? One of his ...