Food Addiction and Its Development
<p id="p1">Becoming addicted to food is described as a biopsychosocial process. Addiction is described as a neural phenomenon in which dopamine secretions first bring pleasure, effectively a balm and an analgesic to assuage physiological and psychological disturbances that are created by obesity. No...
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| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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IntechOpen
2024
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.intechopen.com/chapters/89740 |
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| Sumario: | <p id="p1">Becoming addicted to food is described as a biopsychosocial process. Addiction is described as a neural phenomenon in which dopamine secretions first bring pleasure, effectively a balm and an analgesic to assuage physiological and psychological disturbances that are created by obesity. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, and her associates have done the recent ground-breaking research on food addiction. They recognized that the pleasurable sensations of eating will disappear due to the reduction of dopamine neurons. This leaves anhedonia, and the promise of pleasurable sensations without being fulfilled. Because of this, one desires to eat more, especially hypercaloric foods, to gain these sensations. Therefore, addiction is a cause of obesity. Endocrinological findings suggest that obesity is a cause of addiction, responsible for physiological and psychological disturbances that are mollified by dopaminergic secretions from eating. Consequently, obesity is both a cause and consequence of addiction. The sources of obesity are another matter and this paper looks at the social and behavioral sciences to understand the development of obesity.</p> |
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| ISBN: | 978-0-85014-507-6 |
| DOI: | 10.5772/intechopen.115543 |