Episode 271: Journal Club 4: A Discussion on Food Addiction
Low Carb MD Podcast
Drs. Brian Lenzkes & Tro Kalayjian
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Thank you for joining us for another episode of the Low Carb MD Podcast. Dr. Laura Buchanan is board certified in Family Medicine and is on the board of the Society of Metabolic Health Practitioners. She graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Sciences from the University of South Florida and was a valedictorian of her class at the University of Florida College of Medicine. She is on staff at Dr. Tro's Medical Weight Loss & Direct Primary Care.
In this episode of The Journal Club, Drs. Tro and Laura talk about a recent paper published by Dr. Jen Unwin on Food Addiction (Read it HERE).
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the low-carb MD podcast, no one is beyond help, no one is beyond hope. |
| 0:08.3 | As we have always said we are bringing you medical information and cutting-edge science, |
| 0:12.7 | but none of this is medical advice, please seek out input from your own doctor. |
| 0:18.9 | Hello and welcome to a special Journal Club edition of the low-carb MD |
| 0:29.9 | podcast. Today I'm joined by Dr. Laura Buchanan. Dr. Laura, how are you? I'm doing great, |
| 0:37.3 | how are you doing today? I'm doing very good. So today we're going to be talking about food addiction, |
| 0:42.9 | food addiction when you talk to our family members, our patients, our friends. They all know it, |
| 0:49.6 | right? They all know it. They say I'm a chocoholic. You've heard anybody say I'm addicted to sugar, |
| 0:54.8 | I crave bread. Once you pop, you can't stop. So clinically and just as a human, many people |
| 1:04.0 | understand what food addiction is, right? I'm a chocoholic. I crave ice cream. When it comes to |
| 1:11.9 | the scientific and clinical community, it's not exactly something that is agreed upon. |
| 1:17.9 | And there are a growing body of evidence that supports the idea of food addiction, but |
| 1:25.6 | most critics and many conventional dietitians and doctors would say, how is it that we can be |
| 1:32.8 | addicted to something that we need? And so these have brought some interesting discussions and |
| 1:39.0 | interesting papers into the landscape over the last 10 years. One of the sort of biggest people, |
| 1:46.4 | biggest researchers in the field, is Dr. Gearhart. Dr. Gearhart, who's used to be from Yale, |
| 1:55.3 | and helped founded the Yale Food Addiction Scale, who's now at University of Michigan, |
| 2:01.5 | has been studying food addiction for a number of years. Part of the reason why food addiction |
| 2:06.8 | hasn't become more widely recognized was because there was no strict criteria to diagnose it. |
| 2:16.5 | We had a couple of surveys, like a binge eating scale, and a Yale Food Addiction Scale, |
| 2:23.1 | which were surveys that were very, very cumbersome and would take maybe 30 to 45 minutes for patients |
| 2:31.4 | to take and for physicians to review. But as the DSM, which is the Bible for sort of mental health |
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