Food as a Drug

Walker S C Poston, C Keith Haddock

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• eBook ISBN: 9781317720379
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Nutrition, Dietics & Bariatrics

Food as a Drug provides psychologists, psychiatrists, and counselors with a unique discussion about possible addictive qualities of some foods to assist clients who are struggling with obesity or eating disorders. Examining the pros and cons of treating eating disorders with an addictions model, this book also explores the tremendous societal and personal costs of eating disorders and obesity, such as increased risk of heart disease, health care costs, and death. Thorough and concise, Food as a Drug will assist you in providing better services to clients with these types of dilemmas.

Comprehensive and current, this reference provides information on relevant topics, such as diet and behavior relationships; cross-cultural perspectives on the use of foods for medicinal purposes; regulatory perspectives on drugs, foods, and nutritional supplements; and whether foods have pharmacological properties.

Food as a Drug address several important topics, such as:

• focusing on sugar to determine the effects of food additives on children's behavioral disorders, such as attention deficit disorder and hyperactivity
• addressing the role that your diet plays on serotonin levels, carbohydrate craving, and depression
• examining the phenomenological, psychological, and physiological correlations between overeating and how foods may be used to alleviate negative moods
• discussing the pros and cons of treating obesity and eating disorders with addiction models

Written by experts in the field, this book offers you in-depth studies and information about the nature of food as a potentially addictive substance. Food as a Drug will help you understand these difficult-to-treat conditions and offer clients better and more effective services.

Index

• 5-HT. see also Serotonin
  • enzymes and 37
  • mood regulation and 35–36
  • production of 36
• 5-HT biosynthesis
  • carbohydrate consumption and 39
  • diet and 39
  • enzymes and 36
  • tryptophan and 36–37

• Aboriginal Australians, obesity and, lifestyle influence on 135
• Abstinence
  • addiction model and 91, 115
  • counterindicated for binge eating 91–92
  • food addiction therapy and 18
  • obesity management and 103–104
  • obesity treatment 114
• Addiction
  • definition 88, 124, 141
  • eating disorders as, weight management programs and 136
  • hallmark of 132–133
  • steps for 132
• Addictions model
  • 12-step approach called for in 91
  • abstinence and 91
• alternative explanation, normal
  • response to abnormal
  • environment 144
• carbohydrate consumption and, unsupported by literature 39
• eating disorders and 88, 143
• food addictions, example of treatments for obesity 113–114
• foods acting as drugs under 141
  • obese binge eaters and 91
  • obesity and 17, 103–104, 124–125, 143
    • dietary intake and 115
    • problems with 124–125
  • premises of 115
  • psychoactive substances, food viewed as 20
  • treatment implications for 91–92
  • treatments based on, efficacy of 115
• Addictive disorders, psychoactive substances and 21
• Addictive personality, for foods, no evidence for 125
• ADHD. See Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
• Alcohol
  • drug dependence disorder and 18
  • effects differ from food 41
  • psychoactive effects of, compared with foods 17
• Alcohol problems See Substance abuse
• Alcoholism
  • addiction model and 106
  • eating disorders and 95–96
  • obesity similiar to 106
• Allergic tension-fatigue syndrome, food allergies and 22
• Allicin, constituent of garlic 55–5...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• About the Editors
• Preface
• Pharmacological Properties of Foods and Nutrients
• The Effects of Food on Mood and Behavior: Implications for the Addictions Model of Obesity and Eating Disorders
• Medicinal Foods: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
• Legal and Regulatory Perspectives on Dietary Supplements and Foods
• Eating Disorders and Addiction
• Etiology and Treatment of Obesity in Adults and Children: Implications for the Addiction Model
• Inability to Control Eating: Addiction to Food or Normal Response to Abnormal Environment?
• Food as a Drug: Conclusions
• Index