Nutritional Aspects of Food Addiction

Current Addiction Reports

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 142-150

  Pursey, Kirrilly M ^a,b   Davis, Caroline ^c   Burrows, Tracy L ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Behavioural addiction; Diet; Eating behaviour; Food addiction; Nutrition; Substance related disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 85045404642     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21962952     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40429-017-0139-x     Document Type: Review

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