Physicians, Dietitians Noticing Increase In People With Orthorexia Nervosa.

reports that dietitians and physicians are noticing an increase in the number of people suffering from orthorexia nervosa. Even though the condition is not included in the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), investigators at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine have come up with diagnostic criteria for it. The guidelines appeared earlier this year in the journal Psychosomatics. People who suffer from the condition are so obsessed with eating certain foods they consider healthy and not eating anything else that they end up underweight and malnourished. The condition may be comorbid with obsessive-compulsive disorder. http://online.wsj.com/articles/when-healthy-eating-calls-for-treatment-1415654737