ArticleEating and weight disorders : EWD2021
Trait mindfulness differentiates the interest in healthy diet from orthorexia nervosa.
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- Exploring the association of body mass index, mindful and emotional eating, and orthorexia.Health psychology report · 2023Article
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- Psychological Correlates of Excessive Healthy and Orthorexic Eating: Emotion Regulation, Attachment, and Anxious-Depressive-Stress Symptomatology.Frontiers in nutrition · 2022Article
- Dietary Habits and Musculoskeletal Pain in Statin and Red Yeast Rice Users: A Pilot Study.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2021Article
- Personality Profile in Orthorexia Nervosa and Healthy Orthorexia.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundObsessive healthy eating and its extreme form orthorexia nervosa are epidemiologically significant problems. Mindfulness, the focused, non-judgmental attention to and awareness of present events, may be an important psychological contributor to (orthorexic) eating habits.
methodsIn this cross-sectional survey-based study, 314 women and 75 men (mean age
resultsIn this study, we found a positive relation between mindfulness and healthy orthorexia, the non-pathological interest in eating healthy. By contrast, orthorexia nervosa, the pathological obsession with healthy eating, was negatively associated with mindfulness. Gender differences appeared neglectable.
conclusionTaken together, these results confirm previous research showing that mindfulness encourages eating healthy and may protect against eating-related pathologies. Result also support the notion that orthorexia has two dimensions, healthy and nervosa, which are differently related to psychological factors, herein mindfulness. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level III, cohort study.
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