This is the continuation of Overeating and Obesity 2021 Update on What We Know and What Medicine-Surgery Can Do. Medications or Surgery for Obesity – Pharmacological Treatment of Food Addiction, Overeating, and Obesity As Kelly Brownell and I described in our Oxford University Press book on Food Addiction [20], this behavioral addiction has a great [...]
Part 1 – Could Our Unhealthy Eating Cause Brain Changes, Neuroinflammation, and Obesity? Yes In July of 2007, Duke’s Kelly Brownell and I hosted the first meeting of its kind at Yale University. This meeting became known as the Historic Yale Conference on Food and Addiction [1]. Interested in whether and how highly palatable, manufactured, [...]
An important recent study found a possible link between bariatric surgery and eating disorders and that overemphasis on body shape and weight in post-bariatric surgery patients led to eating disorders, depression, and disability. The researchers sought to determine if post-bariatric surgery patients who struggled with greater loss of control in eating and overemphasis on weight/shape [...]
Obesity and Bariatric Surgery Obesity has been on the rise in the USA and throughout the world. Officially recognized as an epidemic, obesity is also linked to the early onset and increased number of cases of heart disease, strokes, type 2 diabetes and certain types of cancer. As a result of the epidemic, both obesity [...]