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Date:   6/20/2005 1:37:08 AM ( 19 y ago)

To see if you have orthorexia, answer the following questions, and give yourself one point for each "yes" answer.


1. Do you spend more than three hours a day thinking about healthy food? (For four hours, give yourself two points.)

2. Do you plan tomorrow's food today?

3. Do you care more about the virtue of what you eat than the pleasure you receive from eating it?

4. Have you found that as the quality of your diet has increased, the quality of your life has correspondingly diminished?

5. Do you keep getting stricter with yourself?

6. Do you sacrifice experiences you once enjoyed to eat the food you believe is right?

7. Do you feel an increased sense of self-esteem when you are eating healthy food? Do you look down on others who don't?

8. Do you feel guilt or self-loathing when you eat food you like, but isn't on your diet?

9. Does your diet socially isolate you?

10. When you are eating the way you are "supposed" to, do you feel a peaceful sense of total control?


If your points add up to more than four, you may have orthorexia nervosa.

Note: if your search for dietary purity has led you to become seriously underweight, you definitely have an eating disorder, either the anorexic form of orthorexia, or a hidden form of anorexia. In either case, consultation with an eating disorders specialist may be life saving. (See Kate Finn's story on the home page.)

 

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