CLASSIFYING food addiction as a genuine mental disorder could help the health service fight obesity by treating binge eaters in the same way as alcoholics and drug addicts, researchers have claimed.
Scientists at Aberdeen University's Rowett Institute of Nutrition have been working as part of a European consortium to decide whether there is a scientific case to support the use of the term food addiction as a clinical ailment underlying why some people are prone to overeat.
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