When Food Kills – Addiction to Eating and Not Eating
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https://doi.org/10.12775/QS.2025.48.67037Keywords
anorexia nervosa, anorexia, food addiction, obesity, eating disordersAbstract
The aim of this paper is to discuss, based on the literature on the subject, the problem of food addiction, binge eating, anorexia nervosa, and to compare these disorders in terms of their biology and neurobiology. The literature review includes the definition of the concepts of food addiction, binge eating, and anorexia nervosa, the epidemiology of these phenomena based on population studies, the diagnostic criteria for these disorders, and the likely neurobiological factors responsible for their development, as well as a list of types of anorexia nervosa and their differentiation in terms of coexistence with food addiction. The paper also includes a brief discussion of the somatic symptoms observed in the course of obesity and anorexia nervosa.
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