There has been a growing interest among clinicians and researchers about a condition
where people restrict their diet based not on quantity of food they consume, but based on its …

Aim In some cases, detrimental consequences on health are generated by self-imposed
dietary rules intended to promote health. The pursuit of an “extreme dietary purity” due to an …

Purpose Social media use is ever increasing amongst young adults and has previously
been shown to have negative effects on body image, depression, social comparison, and …

The aim of this article is to present the up-to-date diagnostic tools of orthorexia and markers
of its prevalence on the basis of the available literature. The authors searched …

Orthorexia nervosa describes a pathological obsession with proper nutrition that is
characterized by a restrictive diet, ritualized patterns of eating, and rigid avoidance of foods …

This study investigated whether orthorexia nervosa (ON; characterized by an obsessive
fixation on eating healthy) may be predicted from the demographics variables of gender and …

Purpose Orthorexia nervosa, or pathological dieting based on being “healthy,” has been of
growing interest. Clinical data are limited to less than a half-dozen case studies reporting …

The characteristic trait of individuals developing a pathological obsession and
preoccupation with healthy foods and a restrictive and avoidant eating behavior is described …

There is relatively little information available about orthorexia nervosa (ON)[1] because it is a
new term and does not have a universally accepted definition or valid diagnostic criteria …

The present study was designed to investigate orthorexia nervosa, or the phenomenon of
being preoccupied with consuming healthy food. Specific aims were to explore relationships …