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The Addiction-Like Eating Behavior Scale: Features and Applications

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Eating addiction has been described as a behavioral addiction and a possible characteristic associated with the development of obesity. This disorder is significantly complex, and an adequate assessment of the individuals that suffer from it is needed. The Addiction-Like Eating Behavior Scale (AEBS) was recently validated and aims to evaluate addictive eating behavior in adults. The AEBS showed good reliability and validity for evaluating the addictive eating behavior of the adult population and was able to successfully predict a variation in body mass index above that accounted for by the other scales that assess eating disorders or food addiction. Therefore, the AEBS is a short, reliable, and validated scale that could be used to assess eating addiction in adults. The AEBS is very important for clinical practice considering that a better understanding and characterization of eating addiction can potentially help confront an important public health problem around the world: obesity and its comorbidities.

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Abbreviations

AEBS:

Addiction-Like Eating Behavior Scale

BES:

Binge Eating Scale

mYFAS:

Modified Yale Food Addiction Scale

YFAS:

Yale Food Addiction Scale

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Instituto Dr. Tiago Queiroz, Recife, Brazil

    Tiago Queiroz Cardoso

  2. Applied Neuroscience Laboratory, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil

    Lívia Shirahige

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  1. Department of Biomedical Sciences, University of Westminster, London, UK

    Vinood B. Patel

  2. Dept of Nutrition & Dietetics, King's College London, London, UK

    Victor R. Preedy

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Cardoso, T.Q., Shirahige, L. (2022). The Addiction-Like Eating Behavior Scale: Features and Applications. In: Patel, V.B., Preedy, V.R. (eds) Handbook of Substance Misuse and Addictions. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-67928-6_171-1

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