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

ABSTRACT:

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 encomp

SUBMITTER: Mateo-Martinez G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11815929 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature