英国教授：“食物上瘾”使用需谨慎

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据外媒报道，"食物上瘾"（food addiction）越来越成为过度饮食的代名词。对此英国利兹大学心理科学教授布朗德（John Blundell）警告，不要滥用"上瘾"。

    布朗德说，有些人将食物上瘾与药物上瘾联系起来，以此作为暴饮暴食的理由。现有的证据不能界定食物上瘾的精确特征，也无法界定导致所谓的上瘾危险的饮食环境。应该以平常心对此分析，对行为原因作出理性的判断。

    部分原文报道如下：

   
　　While it is possible that a very small percentage of the population - about 5% - could be 'food addicts', the idea of food addiction is exaggerated, said professor John Blundell, who holds a chair in psychobiology at the Institute of Psychological Sciences at the University of Leeds.

　　"The term food addiction is being used too freely as an explanation for overeating," said Blundell. "The condition has been described in the clinical literature for decades; only recently has the term food addiction been applied on a much larger scale to implicate millions of people and to be compared with drug addiction."