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Ethical, Stigma, and Policy Implications of Food Addiction: A Scoping Review
- Source :
- Nutrients, Vol 11, Iss 4, p 710 (2019), Nutrients
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Ryerson University Library and Archives, 2022.
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Abstract
- The concept of food addiction has generated much controversy. In comparison to research examining the construct of food addiction and its validity, relatively little research has examined the broader implications of food addiction. The purpose of the current scoping review was to examine the potential ethical, stigma, and health policy implications of food addiction. Major themes were identified in the literature, and extensive overlap was identified between several of the themes. Ethics sub-themes related primarily to individual responsibility and included: (i) personal control, will power, and choice; and (ii) blame and weight bias. Stigma sub-themes included: (i) the impact on self-stigma and stigma from others, (ii) the differential impact of substance use disorder versus behavioral addiction on stigma, and (iii) the additive stigma of addiction plus obesity and/or eating disorder. Policy implications were broadly derived from comparisons to the tobacco industry and focused on addictive foods as opposed to food addiction. This scoping review underscored the need for increased awareness of food addiction and the role of the food industry, empirical research to identify specific hyperpalatable food substances, and policy interventions that are not simply extrapolated from tobacco.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
Behavioral addiction
medicine.medical_specialty
Food addiction
media_common.quotation_subject
Social Stigma
Stigma (botany)
lcsh:TX341-641
Review
Tobacco industry
Blame
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
mental disorders
medicine
Food Industry
Humans
030212 general & internal medicine
Psychiatry
Health policy
media_common
030109 nutrition & dietetics
Nutrition and Dietetics
Addiction
food addiction
digestive, oral, and skin physiology
health policy
medicine.disease
ethics
3. Good health
Substance abuse
stigma
medicine.symptom
Psychology
lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Food Science
Subjects
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- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Nutrients, Vol 11, Iss 4, p 710 (2019), Nutrients
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....64d395952215de5405ac941f28163ffc