Sentences with phrase «food addiction researcher»

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Yet unlike addictions to substances such as narcotics or nicotine, behavioral addictions to the Internet, food, shopping and even sex are touchy among medical and brain researchers.

Alcohol addiction causes almost 3.8 per cent of deaths worldwide but a study led by QUT researchers offers new hope in the form of a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

UCLA researchers have discovered that certain Asian - American college students have a genetic variation that predisposes them to food addiction.

The researchers wrote that further studies would be needed to assess whether dopamine - like drugs can reduce food cravings and addiction, and whether such drugs could reduce body fat in Asians with the genetic variation.

For the new study, the researchers hoped to understand whether food preferences and addictions were linked to the variant.

One solution to the cravings experienced in addiction may at hand be on your smartphone, according to medical news website 6minutes, which reported (registration required) that an Australian researcher had come up with a novel way to stem cravings for food, coffee, cigarettes or sex a quick game of the block - arranging game Tetris.