«Body dysmorphia will make you miserable, and those with orthorexia tend not to have that,» says Alan Kaufman, a licensed clinical social worker who works with patients with eating disorders at Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, in Berkeley, Calif.. (health.com)
Avoiding specific foods or food groups without a rational reason is one of the defining characteristics of orthorexia nervosa, and is common in people with binge eating disorder and anorexia. (completehumanperformance.com)
«We are seeing more and more cases of orthorexia nervosa,» Peter H.R. Green, the director of the Celiac Disease Center at Columbia University Medical School, explains to Michael Specter for The New Yorker, discussing the method of progressively abstaining from specific foods. (mindbodygreen.com)