Can food addiction replace binge eating assessment in obesity clinics?
Introduction: Food addiction (FA) is a new terminology that uses the similarities between the craving for food and drug addiction. The Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS) is a recently developed tool that assesses the various symptomatology of FA and diagnoses FA when there are ⩾3 symptoms with clinica...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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SpringerOpen
2017-04-01
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Series: | Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics |
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Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110863016300441 |