These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic
shifts in
dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on
dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that
dietary practices are health -
promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.