This paper contains an expression of gratitude towards the organizers of the congress ‘Psychiatry, Food and Addiction’, and the Board members of the Interdisciplinary Society for Biological Psychiatry, of the Sections ‘Biological Psychiatry’ and ‘Psychiatry and Addiction’ of the Dutch Society of Psychiatry and the former Editorial Board of Acta Neuropsychiatry. The author has been a long-term board member of the society and cofounder of both sections and cofounder and editor-in-chief of this Journal from 1989 to 1999.
