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The Processed Food Addiction Self-Test

• Processed food addiction appears to be a factor in obesity. [1] Obesity is associated with increased risk of numerous other chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases, cancer, inflammation, pain and Alzheimer's. [2] 
• These epidemics could be caused by addictive overeating of processed foods. 
• This website aims to help you understand processed food addiction through a self-test. Based on behaviors described in addiction diagnostic criteria published by the American Psychiatric Association (APA). 
• If you self-test positive for addiction to processed food, you will find help. 
• You will also find a description of research showing how processed foods affect the brain. This research may help you understand why we overeat and that it's not your fault. 

What is food addiction?

Sixty-five person of American are overweight or obese. Obesity is a disease that contributes to increased risk of numerous other chronic diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, and cardiovascular diseases. Much of this national problem could be caused by addictive overeating. This website serves as a tool to provide a new way of understanding food addiction. Food addiction can be defined through behaviors described in current American Psychiatric Association (APA) addiction diagnostic criteria, as well as through addictive brain dysfunction.  ​