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Episode 21-Food Addiction and The Science Behind Diet Culture Guilt
Is it addiction, or is it something else wearing the same symptoms?
Episode 21 opens the final section of A Psychology of Food, The Self, by taking on the food addiction debate directly, then following the thread into the binge-restrict cycle and the cheat day culture that keeps it spinning.
What you'll learn in this episode:
● The 2025 research proposing "Ultra-Processed Food Use Disorder" as a diagnosis, what the Yale Food Addiction Scale actually measures, and why researchers are still divided on the question
● Why food doesn't fit the abstinence model every other addiction framework is…
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