ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2020
Selective attentional bias to food-related stimuli in healthy individuals with characteristics towards orthorexia nervosa.
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- Overall proportion of orthorexia nervosa symptoms: A systematic review and meta-analysis including 30 476 individuals from 18 countries.Journal of global health · 2023Pooled it
- Food perception in Orthorexia nervosa: Craving or avoidance?Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2026Article
- What the algorithm serves: diet and fitness content on Instagram as independent predictors of orthorexia nervosa in a large Italian female sample.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Patterns of implicit and explicit identity as a vegan or vegetarian in predicting healthy orthorexia and orthorexia nervosa.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2025Article
- Psychological Correlates of Excessive Healthy and Orthorexic Eating: Emotion Regulation, Attachment, and Anxious-Depressive-Stress Symptomatology.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- The inter-relationship between diet, selflessness, and disordered eating in Australian women.Brain and behavior · 2020Article
- Perspective: Classifying Orthorexia Nervosa as a New Mental Illness-Much Discussion, Little Evidence.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2020Review
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Abstract
purposeIt has been argued that orthorexia nervosa (ON) is a unique type of disordered eating of food considered by the individual to be healthy. Given that in other eating disorder populations attentional preference for food-related cues influences eating behaviours, is it also likely that these biases may be a characteristic of ON tendency.
methodsEighty healthy individuals completed the ORTO-15 questionnaire (ON tendency), a modified Stroop task containing words related to healthy and unhealthy foods and perceived hunger levels pre- and post-testing. The ORTO-15 was used to identify participants within this sample who demonstrated more or less of the characteristics of ON.
resultsResults suggest that the presence of attentional bias to healthy, but not for unhealthy food-related stimuli independently predict increased ON tendency. Increased attentional bias towards healthy food-related stimuli is associated with increased scores on the ORTO-15.
conclusionAttentional bias, as a deficit in information processing, towards healthy food-related stimuli accounts for variability in ON characteristics. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level I, experimental study.
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