What is Orthorexia Nervosa? Diagnostic and Therapeutic Approaches

The popularization of fast food culture in the developed countries caused obesity and malnutrition to be widespread. Just as human behavior, nutritive behavior is also a complicated phenomenon affected by diverse conditions. In our day where communication and information potentia is abundant, it is affective on peoples ‘nutritional habits whether they are able to come across, evaluate, understand and criticize information about healthy nutrition and food groups and in the light of these, to make healthy nutritional choices. The effects of human behavior on nutritive behavior are also effective pathologically. One of the behavior disorders that are called eating disorders, is Orthorexia Nervosa. The pure and healthy nutritive behavior becomes a pathological obsession and a clinical case. It was aimed to draw attention to Orthorexia Nervosa, which was not investigated much in our country, and to review the research conducted around the world