Moderate Results With Tx Program for Food Addiction

A multipart behavioral treatment program offered only a slight improvement in symptoms of food addiction among obese patients with comorbid binge eating disorder, a researcher said here.Emerging research has suggested that this construct of food addiction may characterize a subgroup of patients with binge eating disorder and obesity that may represent a more disturbed variant," Binge eating episodes require two features: eating large amounts of food during discreet periods of time, during which the individual experiences a subjective sense of loss of control over eating during that episode." "The DSM-V also has five behavioral indicators of criteria. [The patient] needs at least three of them to reflect this loss of control," he added. Those behaviors include eating when not hungry -- usually rapidly -- and way past the point of satiety. There also needs to be marked distress about the binge eating, Grilo noted. "The diagnosis requires the absence of extreme and appropriate compensatory behaviorism such as self-induced vomiting, laxative misuse, and so forth -- things that are characteristics of bulimia nervosa -- and the frequency and duration stipulations are once weekly binge eating for the past 3 months, http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AAAP/49020?xid=nl_mpt_DHE_2014-12-10&utm_content=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=DailyHeadlines&utm_source=ST&eun=g721819d0r&userid=721819&email=amydugan2%40gmail.com&mu_id=5883165&utm_term=Daily