Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet

Aim Exploring the lived experience of women concerned about following a healthy and sustainable diet: subjectivity, ideas, descriptive concepts, and constitutive strategies. Method Based on the epistemological paradigm of phenomenology, the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism, and the...

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Autores: Mateo Martínez, Ginés, Vázquez-Sellán, Antonio, Díaz-Martínez, María Luisa, Sellán Soto, María Carmen
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2025
País:España
Recursos:Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
Repositório:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAM
Idioma:inglês
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Palavra-chave:Orthorexia nervosa
Nursing
Mental health
Eating disorders
Qualitative research
Medicina
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spelling Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct dietMateo Martínez, GinésVázquez-Sellán, AntonioDíaz-Martínez, María LuisaSellán Soto, María CarmenOrthorexia nervosaNursingMental healthEating disordersQualitative researchMedicinaAim Exploring the lived experience of women concerned about following a healthy and sustainable diet: subjectivity, ideas, descriptive concepts, and constitutive strategies. Method Based on the epistemological paradigm of phenomenology, the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism, and the methodological perspective of phenomenological reduction, a qualitative discourse analysis was performed through different strategies (thematic content analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis, applying ad hoc techniques). Findings The phenomenological field of healthy eating intermittently unfolds in both experience and discourse, akin to a process of expansion and contraction, in the narrative “Expanding the Consciousness of Healthy Eating”. This encompasses two main themes: (1) Researching and Gathering Information, with the subthemes ‘Health Socialisation,’ ‘My Purchase: Assessing Food Reliability,’ ‘Moral Burden,’ and ‘Compensation as a Mechanism of Channelling Deviation’; and (2) Becoming Healthier, with the subthemes ‘Highlighting Benefits,’ ‘Marketing as a Pandemic Resource of Ideals,’ and ‘Is the Clinical Eye of the Family a Stigmatising Label?'. Conclusion The process of becoming healthier entails a struggle with the environment and with one's inner self. This struggle is open to the entire world and guided by the unalienable tenets of health, respectfulness, goodness, and beauty as ‘the only alternative’ to the suffering caused by a conventional dietElsevierDepartamento de CirugíaDepartamento de EnfermeríaFacultad de Medicina20252025-02-15research articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_2df8fbb1VoRhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_970fb48d4fbd8a85info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttps://hdl.handle.net/10486/747921https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.heliyon.2025.e4225439944343reponame:Biblos-e Archivo. Repositorio Institucional de la UAMinstname:Universidad Autónoma de MadridInglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.uam.es:10486/7479212026-06-23T12:46:27Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
title Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
spellingShingle Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
Mateo Martínez, Ginés
Orthorexia nervosa
Nursing
Mental health
Eating disorders
Qualitative research
Medicina
title_short Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
title_full Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
title_fullStr Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
title_full_unstemmed Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
title_sort Orthorexia nervosa: Healthy habit or pathology? Experiences and expansion of the consciousness of the correct diet
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Mateo Martínez, Ginés
Vázquez-Sellán, Antonio
Díaz-Martínez, María Luisa
Sellán Soto, María Carmen
author Mateo Martínez, Ginés
author_facet Mateo Martínez, Ginés
Vázquez-Sellán, Antonio
Díaz-Martínez, María Luisa
Sellán Soto, María Carmen
author_role author
author2 Vázquez-Sellán, Antonio
Díaz-Martínez, María Luisa
Sellán Soto, María Carmen
author2_role author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Departamento de Cirugía
Departamento de Enfermería
Facultad de Medicina
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Orthorexia nervosa
Nursing
Mental health
Eating disorders
Qualitative research
Medicina
topic Orthorexia nervosa
Nursing
Mental health
Eating disorders
Qualitative research
Medicina
description Aim Exploring the lived experience of women concerned about following a healthy and sustainable diet: subjectivity, ideas, descriptive concepts, and constitutive strategies. Method Based on the epistemological paradigm of phenomenology, the theoretical perspective of symbolic interactionism, and the methodological perspective of phenomenological reduction, a qualitative discourse analysis was performed through different strategies (thematic content analysis and interpretive phenomenological analysis, applying ad hoc techniques). Findings The phenomenological field of healthy eating intermittently unfolds in both experience and discourse, akin to a process of expansion and contraction, in the narrative “Expanding the Consciousness of Healthy Eating”. This encompasses two main themes: (1) Researching and Gathering Information, with the subthemes ‘Health Socialisation,’ ‘My Purchase: Assessing Food Reliability,’ ‘Moral Burden,’ and ‘Compensation as a Mechanism of Channelling Deviation’; and (2) Becoming Healthier, with the subthemes ‘Highlighting Benefits,’ ‘Marketing as a Pandemic Resource of Ideals,’ and ‘Is the Clinical Eye of the Family a Stigmatising Label?'. Conclusion The process of becoming healthier entails a struggle with the environment and with one's inner self. This struggle is open to the entire world and guided by the unalienable tenets of health, respectfulness, goodness, and beauty as ‘the only alternative’ to the suffering caused by a conventional diet
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