Prevalence of food addiction and its relationship to body mass index

Background: Food addiction (FA) is a new terminology that simulates craving for food to drug addiction. It is recently measured by the Yale Food Addiction Scale (YFAS). It was speculated that FA is incriminated in the current obesity epidemic. Egypt is one of the highest African countries in the pre...

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Main Authors: Alaa Youssef Ahmed, Amany Mohammed Sayed
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-07-01
Series:Egyptian Journal of Medical Human Genetics
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1110863016300726