orthorexia

When proposing the term orthorexia, Bratman suggested framing a diagnosis around two direct questions:

Darya Pino: Orthorexia, Bacon Worship And The Power Of Food Culture 2009

American physician Steven Bratman proposed the term orthorexia: "orth" (right and correct) + "orexia" (appetite).

Tara Stiles: Orthoskepsis: When Too Much Thinking Is A Bad Thing 2009

Coined by Colorado physician Dr. Steven Bratman, the term orthorexia applies to people who obsess over eating healthy food.

Lead Stories from AOL 2009

From Steven Bratman, M.D. who coined the term "orthorexia" to describe "an unhealthy obsession for healthy food."

The Seattle Times 2011

While not officially recognized by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, orthorexia is characterized by the same symptoms as anorexia and bulimia.

Eating Disorders: Colleges Highlight Quiet Problem The Huffington Post News Team 2010

Doctors are finding that an obsession with healthy eating can actually lead to an eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa.

News Channel 9: Local News 2008

Peck believes that the new eating disorder related term "orthorexia," coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, falls into the category of disordered eating.

Stories from The Sun 2009

Peck believes that the new eating disorder related term "orthorexia," coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, falls into the category of disordered eating.

Stories from The Sun 2009

However sometimes people with anorexia and / or "orthorexia" also subscribe to a healthy diet such as the raw food diet.

WordPress.com News 2008

I have a friend whose son has become so fixated on what foods he thinks he should or should not be eating that he could be a textbook case of "orthorexia nervosa," a supposed eating disorder characterized by an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

Kerry Trueman: Let's Ask Marion Nestle: Is it Possible to Have an Unhealthy Obsession With Healthy Eating? Kerry Trueman 2011

Orthorexia is an eating disorder where the sufferer has an extreme fixation with the “purity” of their foods or with rules-based eating to the extent that it’s harmful to their physical or mental health, sometimes to the degree that they lose too much weight, or retreat from public life.

Unwanted Corkpull — Real Life Kelly Pendergrast 2023

Dr. Nagata has met with teenage boys who have fainted at the gym — sometimes suffering headaches, temporary blackouts and confusion — because they overexerted themselves lifting weights and had low energy because of a compulsion to count calories (a condition known as orthorexia).

What Is ‘Bigorexia’? By 2022

But, of course, there is nothing healthy about diet culture, which encourages everything from orthorexia, or an obsession with “clean eating,” to other forms of disordered eating in its pursuit of thinness above all else.

Stop Torturing Yourself With Quarantine Diets Amy McCarthy 2020

Indeed, orthorexia nervosa, characterized by dietary restriction based on personal interpretation of food purity, might be added to the DSM-6 as a new eating disorder.

Is Your Wellness Practice Just a Diet in Disguise? Condé Nast 2019