Orthorexia nervosa is the newest health fixation spreading among the millennial generation. While eating healthy and staying active is great, sometimes it can be taken too far. When eating healthy ...

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Jason Wood was sitting in a restaurant on vacation with his husband, angry and upset because he couldn’t swap pita for fresh vegetables in his hummus plate. The pain wasn’t overblown, Wood said. It ...

Orthorexia is a term that describes an obsession with healthy eating. People with orthorexia may adopt strict diets, cut out entire food groups, and develop anxiety about diseases or food purity.

The growing obsession with healthy eating, fueled by social media, can lead to orthorexia, an eating disorder marked by excessive focus on food purity. Unlike other eating disorders, orthorexia ...

One of the most dangerous eating disorders can be disguised as healthy eating. Social media sites are filled with posts about so-called "clean diets," but therapists say those diets can lead some ...

No more easy meals out. No more coffee. All my free time poured into researching acceptable foods and scrolling through Instagram nutrition accounts. I was following a special diet to keep my ...

Drake Coleman sat in his family’s hotel room, weighing the small plate of meat and vegetables he would eat for dinner on the scale he’d packed for vacation. While the rest of his family was out to ...

At first, Melanie Murphy was just following doctor’s orders. Murphy, then 19, had gained weight during a period of depression, and her doctor told her she should lose some. She went from 180 to 125 ...

One awful day, D.C. Copeland recalls, her perspective on her “pure” diet had become so distorted that she found herself crying in the produce section of a grocery store because she could not decide ...

Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an obsession with the perceived "purity" of food. People with orthorexia might restrict themselves to eating only unprocessed or organic foods ...

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