[Malnutrition due to an extremely 'healthy' diet; a new eating disorder?]. / Ondervoeding door een extreem gezondheidsdieet.
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
; 160: A9164, 2016.
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| ID: mdl-27299484
A 71-year-old male was admitted to our hospital with heart failure, cachexia and biochemical disturbances due to a diet consisting of exclusively vegetables, oil and water. Our investigations showed that this diet was a consequence of an excessive preoccupation with health. The patient did not meet criteria for an eating disorder or other DSM-IV psychiatric disorder. We conclude that malnutrition due to health fad diets may be an underestimated medical problem. There is no specific psychopathological disorder that covers this behaviour, and there is no knowledge of its epidemiology. Popular literature is paying a great deal attention to orthorexia nervosa, an alleged eating disorder that describes a pathological obsession with healthy food. In medical literature this concept has been largely neglected, although eating disorder specialists frequently observe this behaviour in their practice. More clinical and scientific attention for this phenomenon is necessary to determine its epidemiology, validity and clinical picture.
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Asunto principal:
Trastornos de Alimentación y de la Ingestión de Alimentos
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Desnutrición
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Dieta Saludable
Tipo de estudio:
Prognostic_studies
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
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Aged
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Humans
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Male
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Nl
Revista:
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd
Año:
2016
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Article
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