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Discover FoodBackground The connection between psychiatry health, mental health, and lifestyle is under-studied in the Arab world. This study examined whether addictions to smartphones and fast food are associated with severe depressive symptoms in a cohort of Arab ...
Nawal AlSakarneh +4 more
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Fast Food, Addiction, and Market Power
Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 2007 Many attribute the rise in obesity since the early 1980's to the overconsumption of fast food. A dynamic model of a different-product industry equilibrium shows that a firm with market power will price below marginal cost in a steady-state equilibrium. A
Timothy J. Richards +2 more
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FAST FOOD ADDICTION, BODY ESTEEM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal, 2020 Objective: To determine whether fast food addiction correlate with body esteem and psychological well-being among university students. Study Design: Cross sectional analytical study.
Ambreen Anjum, Iram Jahangir
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Journal of Ayurveda Case ReportsFast food is often consumed not as a requirement for hunger but to continuously satiate the taste buds with appealing flavors, which creates an addictive behavior.
Pooja Huilgol, Pradeep L. Grampurohit
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Journal of Consumer Behaviour, 2022 AbstractThis research investigates the complex relationships between fast‐food addiction (FFA) and fast food‐anti‐consumption (FFAC). Specifically, we propose an intervening process through which FFA turns into FFAC. Using a randomised sample of 437 respondents from Sichuan Province, China, this study tests how concern about obesity and chronic disease
Muhammad Faisal Shahzad +3 more
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Fast Food Addiction: A Major Public Health Issue [PDF]
Nutrition and Food Processing, 2020 Fast food/Junk food is designed to be tasty, comforting and convenient. Unfortunately, whilst these foods contain lots of calories, they often have far lower levels of fiber, water and minerals as compared to natural foods. Packaged food and snacks are also created specifically so that we get enough texture and taste from each bite to tantalize our ...
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2023 PurposeSmartphone addiction has been a matter of serious concern among society and parents because of its high incidence and serious negative effects.
Jun Wang +5 more
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Cells, 2021 Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of accelerated as well as chronological aging-related human morbidity and mortality worldwide. Genetic, immunologic, unhealthy lifestyles including daily consumption of high-carb/high-fat fast food, lack of ...
Asish K. Ghosh
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Journal of Eating Disorders, 2022 Plain English summary The term "food addiction" refers to the behavior of consuming highly palatable foods (such as salty, fatty, and sweet foods) in quantities beyond what is necessary to maintain a healthy diet.
Nikzad Ghanbari +5 more
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Addiction Neuroscience, 2023 We recently reported an economic choice task in which squirrel monkeys chose between differing amounts of remifentanil, a fast-acting opioid, or a food reward to develop a preclinical screen for evaluating potential pharmacotherapies for opioid ...
Alishan S. Amirali +9 more
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