"I'm not referring to just anyone who is overweight," Volkow said in an interview. "It's the extreme cases in which the compulsion is so severe it basically disrupts their life, their professional lives, their health, their social interactions."
Over time, massive weight gain.
overeating sugary and fatty foods makes people unable to exert self-control over their food intake.
chasing the same "high
"Both food consumption and drug use are driven by their rewarding properties,"
some forms of obesity should be included in the new edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, psychiatry's official "bible" of mental illness
brain circuits in obese people can become disrupted, producing an uncontrollable, compulsive and "pathologically intense" drive for food
extreme cases should be classified as a brain disorder
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