Sarah Hays Coomer is a Mayo Clinic and National Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach, certified personal trainer and author based in Nashville, Tennessee. She has spent nearly 20 years helping ...

Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that causes people to become fixated on healthy eating. Orthorexia symptoms include obsessively checking nutrition labels and refusing to eat "bad" foods.

Jason Wood was sitting in a restaurant on vacation with his husband, angry and upset because he couldn’t swap pita for fresh vegetables in his hummus plate. The pain wasn’t overblown, Wood said. It ...

Jason Wood, an eating disorders advocate and author, says that telling his story helped him overcome the stigma around eating disorders in men. Jason Wood, 38, recalls being taught in a high school ...

A physician named Steve Bratman created the term “orthorexia” in 1996 as a way to gently challenge some of his patients who seemed obsessed with healthy or “clean” eating. Orthorexia is not a formal ...

Orthorexia is a term that describes an obsession with healthy eating. People with orthorexia may adopt strict diets, cut out entire food groups, and develop anxiety about diseases or food purity.