Obesity has reached alarming rates worldwide. Although many people attempt to control weight by modifying their food-related behaviours, this typically only has short-term effects and most dieters regain the weight that was lost. Why do so many people struggle to regulate their food-related behaviours? One possible explanation is that these behaviours have become habits that are not immediately sensitive to their consequences. Here we review experimental evidence for a shift to habitual control over food-related behaviours and the neural systems that control them and how this relates to difficulty changing ones' eating behavior.

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有问题的饮食是习惯性控制的问题

肥胖在全球范围内达到了惊人的速度。尽管许多人试图通过改变与食物相关的行为来控制体重，但这通常只会产生短期影响，并且大多数节食者会恢复失去的体重。为什么这么多人难以规范他们与食物相关的行为？一种可能的解释是，这些行为已成为对其后果不立即敏感的习惯。在这里，我们回顾了对食物相关行为的习惯性控制和控制它们的神经系统的转变的实验证据，以及这与改变饮食行为的困难有何关系。