Abstract
Objective: This study was conducted in order to evaluate healthy eating obsession-orthorexia nervosa and related factors in women. Method: The study was carried out 132 volunteer women aged between 20-54 years. Demographic characteristics, health information were taken and orthorexia nervosa-15 (ORTO-15) was applied by researcher with face to face method. Antropometric measurements were taken according to the rules. It was determinated that ORTO-15 score ≤40 is orthorexic and >40 is normal. Data was evaluated using chi-square, analysis of t-test and correlation analysis methods with SPSS16.0 program. Result: It was found that 75.8% of women has less than 40 points from ORTO-15 test. There is a negative correlation between ORTO-15 score with age (r =-0.183), body weight (r=-0.206) and BMI (r=-0.199) (p<0.05). It was seen that obsessional concerns such as choosing healthy food and this dietary pattern to be associated with physical appearance are common in orthorexic individuals. Conclusion: It was found that orthorexia tendency of women has higher. It has been observed that orthorexic tendencies are increased in individuals with high body weight and BMI values. Determination of obsessional concerns of orthorexic individuals will be useful in the classification of the disease and development of diagnostic criteria.
Highlights
IntroductionAs the importance of nutrition is emphasized in the prevention and treatment of diseases and improvement of health, awareness of healthy nutrition is increasing in society
It was found that orthorexia tendency of women has higher
It has been observed that orthorexic tendencies are increased in individuals with high body weight and body mass index (BMI) values
Summary
As the importance of nutrition is emphasized in the prevention and treatment of diseases and improvement of health, awareness of healthy nutrition is increasing in society. Individuals adopt a nutritional style for purposes such as protecting and improvement of health, treating disease or losing weight. Orthorexic individuals usually prefer healthy and pure nutrients and they care the quality of food rather than amount [4,5] They show anxious behaviors about food preparation and cooking techniques and sterilization of cooker. Orthorexic individuals who are struggling with healthy nutrition are often faced with severe weight loss and malnutrition as in other eating disorders [1,4,5,6] These individuals lose weight because of triying consume healthy foods and make their diet perfect mentally and not to look better like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa [7]. Negative feelings such as regret and wanting to be extremely weak are not observed [3]
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