Ortorexia nervosa: uma revisão da literatura

Abstract

The orthorexia nervosa comes a new eating disorder. The term comes from the Greek, meaning correct appetite. The compulsion for biologically pure food, stands out as a feature of orthorexia, causing a food deprivation. At the beginning there is a desire to improve health, evolving into an obsessive for healthy eating. The preoccupation with food, causes losses of social and affective relationships. Somehow, the imposition of the beauty standards set by society, the physical and emotional health, especially adolescents and young adults. Above all, for being a subject little studied, there are few published works. Finally, for the proper treatment of orthorexia, there must be a multidisciplinary intervention to achieve progressively rejected foods, which have importance for the health and nutrition.