TY - JOUR T1 - Orthorexic eating behavior in vegans is linked to health, not to animal welfare. AU - Barthels,Friederike, AU - Poerschke,Saskia, AU - Müller,Romina, AU - Pietrowsky,Reinhard, Y1 - 2019/04/09/ PY - 2018/12/12/received PY - 2019/03/15/accepted PY - 2019/4/11/pubmed PY - 2021/3/16/medline PY - 2019/4/11/entrez KW - Health KW - Motives KW - Orthorexia KW - Orthorexic eating behavior KW - Veganism SP - 817 EP - 820 JF - Eating and weight disorders : EWD JO - Eat Weight Disord VL - 25 IS - 3 N2 - PURPOSE: This study aimed to analyze the association between the importance of several reasons to follow a vegan diet and the degree of orthorexic eating behavior in a sample of vegan individuals (N = 65, 53.8% women, age: M = 28.22 (SD = 9.13) years, BMI: M = 22.91 (SD = 3.44) kg/m2). RESULTS: The results reveal that orthorexic eating behavior is associated with the importance of the underlying motives health, esthetics and healing, whereas animal welfare, politics and ecology are not linked to orthorexia. CONCLUSION: Hence, this study reveals that a vegan lifestyle is not per se associated with orthorexic eating behavior, but rather that it varies with the underlying motivation for following a vegan diet. SN - 1590-1262 UR - https://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/citation/30968370/Orthorexic_eating_behavior_in_vegans_is_linked_to_health_not_to_animal_welfare_ DB - PRIME DP - Unbound Medicine ER -