Summary The Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region faces a major diet‐related
health problem accompanied by enormous economic and social costs. The shifts in diet are …

As consumers continue to struggle with issues related to unhealthy consumption, the goal of
front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels is to provide nutrition information in more …

Despite isolated areas of improvement, no country to date has reversed its obesity epidemic.
Governments, together with a broad range of stakeholders, need to act urgently to decrease …

According to learning‐based models of behavior, food cue reactivity and craving are
conditioned responses that lead to increased eating and subsequent weight gain. However …

The purpose of this research was to validate a modified version of the Weight Bias
Internalization Scale (WBIS-M) that is applicable to individuals across different body weight …

In this paper, we consider the concept of food addiction from a clinical and neuroscientific
perspective. Food addiction has an established and growing currency in the context of …

Based on similarities between overconsumption of food and addictive drugs, there is
increasing interest in “food addiction,” a compulsive eating pattern defined using symptoms …

In recent years, the concept of food addiction has gained more and more popularity. This
approach acknowledges the apparent parallels between substance use disorders and …

There is an urgent need to address unhealthy dietary patterns at the population level. Poor
diet and physical inactivity are key drivers of the obesity pandemic, and they are among the …

There is a growing view that certain foods, particularly those high in refined sugars and fats,
are addictive and that some forms of obesity can usefully be treated as a food addiction. This …