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Recently, the institute received an email from Norway, asking about studies that assess how many people experience food
addictions, including sugar addiction:
“As part of a project we are working on, I need to reference sources and studies. I often hear people refer to the claim that approximately 25% of the population suffers from food and sugar addiction. Are there sources to support this statement? What do you consider to be a reliable estimate?
“Are there any new studies on food and sugar addiction that you believe are important to include in presentations going forward?”
What do we mean when we talk about Food
Addiction? We start with
these three tenets:
1- Food Addiction is a substance use disorder.
2- Abstinence from binge and trigger foods and behaviors is essential to recovery.
3- Promoting Sustainable Food Addiction is a substance use disorder.
