Orthorexia Nervosa
Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating. Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia mostly revolves around food quality, not quantity. Unlike with anorexia or bulimia, people with orthorexia are rarely focused on losing weight (1).
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Wiki Number: PW146
Diagnosis: Orthorexia Nervosa
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Symptoms: obsessive preoccupation with eating healthy food; the quality of food vs. amount of food eaten; more restrictive over time
Progression: may lead to excluding different classes of foods to unhealthy eating and weight “over-control”
Causes: increased viewing of Instagram where “food” is a frequent choice of topics, vs. other electronic messaging platforms
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Therapies: This is not (yet?) recognized in the 2013 “Diagnostic and Statistical Manual” as a disease.
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- "That's just healthy eating in my opinion" - Balancing understandings of health and 'orthorexic' dietary and exercise practicesby Melinda Lewthwaite on January 23, 2022
There is a fine line between eating and exercising "for one's health" and adopting obsessive dietary practices. Not currently recognised in the DSM-5, Orthorexia Nervosa is a proposed eating disorder characterized by an unhealthy obsession with eating healthy foods. In this study, we explored people's self-identified experiences of highly significant dietary and exercise practices, which whilst considered to be healthful may paradoxically have become problematic or resulted in dysfunction....
- Adherence to Mediterranean Diet and Tendency to Orthorexia Nervosa in Professional Athletesby Dinko Martinovic on January 21, 2022
Among many lifestyle components that professional athletes have to follow, nutrition is gradually growing to be one of the key factors for achieving and maintaining optimal sport performance. The Mediterranean diet (MD) is recognized as one of the healthiest dietary patterns worldwide; however, data regarding adherence to the MD among professional athletes are still scarce. Moreover, with the imposed need for a healthy diet among professional athletes, orthorexia nervosa (ON) could become a...
- Orthorexia nervosa risk and associated factors among Chilean nutrition students: a pilot studyby Manuel Villa on January 12, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: There is an ON risk prevalence of 23.3% in the present pilot sample under study, indicating that years of study, cohabitation, secondary educational establishment, physical activity and Instagram use constitute associated factors for the studied condition. Some results vary from international evidence, describing a dual nature in the variables for Instagram time and declared physical activity for ON risk. This study needs replication in more representative samples and longitudinal...
- What do Italian healthcare professionals think about orthorexia nervosa? Results from a multicenter surveyby Carla Gramaglia on January 9, 2022
PURPOSE: Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an obsession for healthy and proper nutrition. Diagnostic criteria for ON are lacking and the psychopathology of ON is still a matter of debate in the clinical and scientific community. Our aim was to better understand the Italian clinical and scientific community's opinion about ON.