A commentary on the associations among ‘food addiction’, binge eating disorder, and obesity: Overlapping conditions with idiosyncrating clinical featuresDavis (2017)Appetite There is accumulating evidence that some vulnerable individuals display addictive symptoms in relations to their consumption of certain highly rewarding foods. Despite a positive relationship between obesity and addictive tendencies toward food, it is over-inclusive to model obesity as an addiction disorder, especially given the multi-faceted etiology and current pervasiveness of weight gain worldwide. The experience of ‘loss-of-control’ (LOC) over food consumption can reflect a clinically significant eating disturnabce irrespective of the amount of food that is eaten. Binge eating is neither a necessary nor a sufficient component of food addiction, and other forms of compulsive intake may also characterize this disorder. Obesity is a mutable physical state characterized by higher levels of adipose tissues than are deemed healthy, but which can change relatively rapidly as a result of alternations in energy input or energy expenditure. It is a condition that can only be assessed by proxy in the living organism. Obesity is a condition with multiple causes, which must, prominently, include dramatic changes in food environment during the same time period as tis most prominent increase. In addiction, casual factors tend to function in the form of...