Uncontrolled eating: a unifying heritable trait linked with obesity, overeating, personality and the brain

Volume: 50, Issue: 3, Pages: 2430 - 2445
Published: Aug 1, 2019
Abstract
Many eating-related psychological constructs have been proposed to explain obesity and overeating. However, these constructs, including food addiction, disinhibition, hedonic hunger, emotional eating, binge eating and the like all have similar definitions, emphasizing loss of control over intake. As questionnaires measuring the constructs correlate strongly (r > 0.5) with each other, we propose that these constructs should be reconsidered to be...
Paper Details
Title
Uncontrolled eating: a unifying heritable trait linked with obesity, overeating, personality and the brain
Published Date
Aug 1, 2019
Volume
50
Issue
3
Pages
2430 - 2445
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