TY - JOUR
T1 - “Keep Yourself Alive”: From Healthy Eating to Progression to Orthorexia Nervosa
T2 - A Mixed Methods Study among Young Women in the Netherlands
AU - Valente, Martina
AU - Syurina, Elena V.
AU - Muftugil-Yalcin, Seda
AU - Cesuroglu, Tomris
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This study aimed to understand the factors influencing people’s choice to follow a diet considered healthy, and if and how these factors may contribute progress toward a higher (unhealthy) degree of preoccupation with healthy eating: orthorexia nervosa. This was achieved through mixed methods (interviews, n = 12; questionnaire, n = 82). The target group was young females in the Netherlands. Several biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to people’s healthy eating. Having concerns about chronic conditions were found to be significantly associated with a higher degree of preoccupation with healthy eating, resulting implicated in the possible onset of orthorexia nervosa.
AB - This study aimed to understand the factors influencing people’s choice to follow a diet considered healthy, and if and how these factors may contribute progress toward a higher (unhealthy) degree of preoccupation with healthy eating: orthorexia nervosa. This was achieved through mixed methods (interviews, n = 12; questionnaire, n = 82). The target group was young females in the Netherlands. Several biological, psychological, and social factors contribute to people’s healthy eating. Having concerns about chronic conditions were found to be significantly associated with a higher degree of preoccupation with healthy eating, resulting implicated in the possible onset of orthorexia nervosa.
KW - biopsychosocial model
KW - healthy eating
KW - Orthorexia nervosa
KW - transition
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U2 - 10.1080/03670244.2020.1755279
DO - 10.1080/03670244.2020.1755279
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85084316606
SN - 0367-0244
VL - 59
SP - 578
EP - 597
JO - Ecology of Food and Nutrition
JF - Ecology of Food and Nutrition
IS - 6
ER -