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What is orthorexia?
The disorder which sees healthy eating go too far.
Thanks for asking.
According to the American National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, around 9 of the US population are affected by an eating disorder.
We've all heard of anorexia, bulimia and binge eating, which are among the most commonly diagnosed.
But awareness is growing about another disorder which sees people become obsessed with the so-called purity of the food they eat.
It's called orthorexia, coming from the Latin words orthos for correct, and orexis meaning appetite.
American doctor Stephen Bratman coined the term in 1997.
To put it simply, orthorexia is a need to eat healthily at all costs, to the extent that it becomes an obsession.
Those affected start cutting out certain foods completely or even seeing them as dangerous when they're not really.
Let's listen to Cleveland Clinic Dr Casey Goodpaster talking to WCNC about how orthorexia differs from other eating disorders in an interview recorded back in 2019.
This one is more focused on the quality of the food intake rather than the quantity of the food intake.
And there's a lot of distress or impairment that results from not following a very restrictive diet.
Scientifically speaking, orthorexia isn't recognized as an eating disorder in its own right, at least not yet.
So it's hard to find any precise data on how many people are affected.
But it's still more dangerous than you might think.
Isn't eating healthily recommended by medical professionals?
Of course, there's nothing wrong with wanting to monitor your food intake to stay healthy.
But in people with orthorexia, the behavior gets similar to OCD.
They may develop rituals like obsessively checking the calorie count on food packaging, for example.
With the nutritional values seen as the be-all and end-all, there's often no pleasure taken from actually eating the food.
Furthermore, they may only eat at home in order to have complete control over every last ingredient that goes into their meals.
Even the thought of eating an unhealthy, or supposedly unhealthy food is a source of anxiety, so that food gets banned.
The same logic may then get applied to entire food groups like sugar, carbs or dairy, for example.
Like with anorexia, that can lead to rapid weight loss and malnutrition, both of which can be dangerous.
But on top of that, it can also result in anxiety attacks and a depressive state related to the need for permanent control of one's diet, which of course creates stress.
How can I find out if I suffer from orthorexia?
Dr. Bratman developed a simple test to help detect indicators of orthorexia.
It consists of 10 yes or no questions and can be easily found online by searching for the Bratman test.
Bear in mind it's not an actual diagnosis, so just see it as a first step before seeking professional help, if you think you need it.
In any case, as I mentioned earlier, orthorexia isn't strictly recognized as an eating disorder.
Nevertheless, a doctor or nutritionist may be able to help.
The closest you could get to a diagnosis would be being told you have an other specified feeding or eating disorder.
There you have it.
Now you know what orthorexia is.
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