Help may be on the way for junk food addicts ... at the University of Michigan and top researcher in the field of food addiction. Ultra-processed foods — such as chips, many cereals and many ...

A former head of the US Food and Drug Administration cut his body fat in half using GLP-1 drugs. In his book, he compares the ...

Food addiction is an addiction to highly processed foods, sometimes referred to as “junk food,” and is comparable to drug addiction. It’s a relatively new and controversial term, and high ...

“I had tried to avoid the word addiction when I was writing ‘Salt ... from barbiturates and other addictive drugs can cause. Junk food adverts banned for targeting children online Two-for ...

Science says it’s not you, it’s the junk food. Ultra-processed foods ... who previously created the Yale Food Addiction Scale by applying the same criteria that experts use to diagnose ...

The symptoms resemble typical signs of addiction: intense cravings, inability to cut down on highly processed foods — also known as junk food or comfort food — despite negative consequences ...

A survey on healthy aging found 44% of adults over 50 have at least one symptom of junk food addiction — 24% craved it once a week, 19% experienced cravings two to three times a week ...

But there is also a more sinister element to our nation's junk food addiction: food manufacturers are manipulating our minds and bodies — spending millions of dollars over decades to engineer ...

Children who regularly watch junk food advertisements for even 5 minutes eat more calories in a day, experts weigh in ...