Are you a food addict? Take our online test

Is food addiction real? Are some people addicted to eating the way others are addicted to drugs or alcohol? scientists say yes. Food addicts struggle with food in much the same way that all addicts struggle - and brain scans seem to confirm that food addiction exists on a neurological level as well as on a behavioral level. This is important, because when it comes to losing weight, food addicts need intensive help - ordinary weight-loss programs simply won't do.

Are you a food addict? Find out by answering the questions posed in the slides that follow. This abbreviated version of the Yale Food Addiction Scale was provided to CBS News by one of its creators, Ashley Gearhardt, a psychology doctoral student at Yale University.

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