Scholarly Books on Food Addiction

Mark Gold, MD edited a professional book published on the disease under the nomenclature of Eating Disorders, Overeating, and Pathological Attachment to Food.   The book was also published as an edition of the Journal of Addictive Diseases. In addition to articles about the neuropathways of food and addiction, the book addresses the crossover between drug recovery and weight gain, genetic issues, and the co-occurrence of drug abuse with eating disorders.  The book was published by The Haworth Medical Press, a prestigious academic publisher. 

      Marion Hetherington; PhD edited a book; Food Cravings and Addiction. This book covers food craving research; the neurobiology of cravings; the neuropharmacology of food reward; opioids and human ingestive behavior; cravings for chocolate (a research interest of Dr. Hetherington’ s); hormonal status and cravings; mood, food, alcohol and addiction; and dieting, eating disorders, and addiction.  The book was published by a food research organization, Leatherhead Food International, Leatherhead, Surrey, UK. 

      Dennis M. Donovan, PhD and G. Alan Marlatt are the co-authors of the definitive textbook, Assessment of Addictive Behaviors. In the introduction, the authors explain why they have included a chapter on assessing eating disorders. “The revised edition has expanded beyond the “traditional” addictions (e.g., alcohol, opiates, cocaine, marijuana, tobacco) and other “consumptive” addictions such as obesity/eating disorders…”