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The Food Addiction Construct May Do More Harm Than Good: Weight Controllers Are Athletes, Not Addict...

The Food Addiction Construct May Do More Harm Than Good: Weight Controllers Are Athletes, Not Addict...

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The Food Addiction Construct May Do More Harm Than Good: Weight Controllers Are Athletes, Not Addicts

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The Food Addiction Construct May Do More Harm Than Good: Weight Controllers Are Athletes, Not Addicts

Publisher

United States: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc

Journal title

Childhood obesity, 2018-06, Vol.14 (4), p.227-236

Language

English

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United States: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc

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Contents

Food addiction has become a popular notion in the media and scientific community, with many proposing that an addiction to food causes obesity. An article published in this journal in December 2017 by Tompkins et al. asserted that food addiction poses a barrier to the treatment of adolescent obesity. This review questions some of the methods, resul...

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The Food Addiction Construct May Do More Harm Than Good: Weight Controllers Are Athletes, Not Addicts

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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2054938021

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_2054938021

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ISSN

2153-2168

E-ISSN

2153-2176

DOI

10.1089/chi.2018.0100

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