First, using an addictive substance causes the release of a chemical messenger called dopamine in the reward network, which ...

Are your cravings for certain foods out of control? Source: Joenomias/Pixabay, used with permission Are you a food addict? Certainly all of us have had the experience, at one time or another, of being ...

The City of San Francisco recently filed a lawsuit against the country largest manufacturers of ultraprocessed foods, contending the food industry knew that their products were making people sick, but ...

Food Addiction is currently not listed in the DSM-5 framework, a diagnostic tool published by the American Psychiatric Association, but that doesn’t mean that it’s not harmful. In layman’s terms, it’s ...

For decades, public health officials treated cigarettes as a dangerous consumer product. We taxed them, reduced or banned ...

People often joke that their favorite snack is “like crack” or call themselves “chocoholics” in jest. But can someone really be addicted to food in the same way they could be hooked on substances such ...

They were the first generation of Americans to grow up with ultra-processed foods all around them—products typically loaded with extra fat, salt, sugar and flavorings. They were children and young ...

UPFs are made to encourage addiction and consumption and should be regulated like tobacco, say researchers ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If there’s one thing that folks of all political stripes can agree on, it’s that the U.S. food supply — and therefore too many ...