APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Pathologically Healthful Eating Can be Detected By the Eating Attitudes Test - 26.
- Thomas Dunn
University of Northern Colorado - Nicole Hawkins
Center for Change - Stacey Gagliano
University of Northern Colorado - Kristen Stoddard
University of Northern Colorado
Abstract
Sufferers of pathologically healthful eating (orthorexia nervosa) often become malnourished or develop medical problems because of rigid dieting falsely believed to be healthy. Despite a focus on fear of being fat, binge/purge behavior, etc the EAT-26 classifies those with orthorexia nervosa has having a possible eating disorder.
Psychopathology
