Episode 292: Lucy Loch | Food Addiction in Older Adults - What New Research Reveals
Why do older women show the highest rates of food addiction, while older men are more likely to meet criteria for alcohol and tobacco use disorder — and why does that gap flip when it comes to weight? In Episode 292, we sit down with Lucy Loch, a doctoral candidate in Psychology at the University of Michigan, to unpack her research on food addiction in older adults and what it reveals about decades of diet culture, marketing, and an under-screened generation.
Lucy studies the life course development of addictive-like eating — how early-life experiences and exposure to ultra-processed foods…
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