What Is Orthorexia Nervosa? What One Should Know About Orthorexia.

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What Is Orthorexia Nervosa? What One Should Know About Orthorexia.

Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa, is an eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

American physician Steve Bratman first coined the term “orthorexia” in 1997.

The term is derived from “orthos,” which is Greek for “right.”

Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia mostly revolves around food quality, not quantity.

Some experts think there are similarities between the constant worry about food seen in orthorexia as in eating disorders like bulimia and anorexia nervosa.

Unlike with anorexia or bulimia, people with orthorexia are rarely focused on losing weight.

Instead, they have an extreme fixation with the “purity” of their foods, as well as an obsession with the benefits of healthy eating.

The medical community is beginning to recognize orthorexia, although neither the American Psychiatric Association nor the DSM-5 has officially defined the condition as an eating disorder.

It’s not an official diagnosis. But the basic idea is that it includes eating habits that reject a variety of foods for not being “pure” enough.

An effort has been made in this E- Booklet to present comprehensively what one should know about this eating disorder that involves an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

…Dr. H. K. Saboowala.

M.B.(Bom) .M.R.S.H.(London)