Food addiction, impulsivity, mood and BMI and T2d

What is it about?

Results demonstrated that over 70% of the sample with t2d met the YFAS criteria for FA. Results also demonstrated that participants classified as FA had significantly higher BMI. The food addict classification group also had a significantly higher percentage of obese participants. Utilising a cross-sectional design to predict BMI, it was demonstrated that FA (and impulsivity (non-planning) were significant predictors. In combination FA and impulsivity (non-planning) significantly explained 38% of BMI variance; however depression, anxiety, and stress did not significantly improve the model. These results suggest FA and impulsivity (non-planning) are more salient cross-sectional predictors of BMI, in people with t2d, than indices of depression, anxiety, stress and impulsivity (motor and attentional). These results, implicating FA in the development of obesity, have important ramifications for potential future treatment methods of t2d where FA symptomology could be routinely screened, and if present, treated via addiction models rather than purely attempting to treat the potential consequences of FA.

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Why is it important?

"Processed foods are steaming down the track at a fast pace and as such, becoming one of the most commonly used substances to 'legally' hijack the brain. Unfortunately the secondary complications are treated as the primary diagnosis , when in fact, they are the consequences of an addiction at play!!! We are following in the footsteps of nicotine, and I hypothesis in the near future, 'processed food' will also be an addictive substance that if one does have processed food symptomology, then an addiction model of treatment would be the ultimate choice in putting this malady into remission!

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