Orthorexia is a mental health condition that is an unhealthy obsession with eating nutritious foods that can lead to diets so strict, it can have health related consequences.

What are the consequences?

• Unintended weight loss, can be severe
• Nutritional deficiencies
• Lack of social functioning, isolation
• Self-punishment
• Rigid avoidance of lots of foods
• Impaired immune system
• Emotional instability
• Constipation
• Osteoporosis