Orthorexia nervosa: when righteous eating becomes an obsession

UNSW: Passionate about paleo or obsessed with organic? It might be time to reassess how you think about food, writes Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds. Orthorexia nervosa, the “health food eating disorder”, gets its name from the Greek wordortho, meaning straight, proper or correct. This exaggerated focus on food can be seen today in some people who follow lifestyle movements such as “raw”, “clean” and “paleo”.

Orthorexia

Authors:  Márta Varga1, Barna Konkolÿ Thege, Szilvia Dukay-Szabó and al. BMC Psychiatry. 2014
When eating healthy is not healthy.
Orthorexia nervosa (ON) is an alleged eating disorder in which the person is excessively preoccupied with healthy food.