Obsession with healthy food leads to eating disorder

THOUSANDS of Irish people are falling victim to an eating disorder they don’t even know they’re suffering from.

Health watchdogs say they are concerned about an increase in numbers of people suffering “orthorexia”, which develops from an obsession to eat healthy food.

The condition is not easy to spot, because unlike anorexics, sufferers of orthorexia tend to have normal body weight and have no desire to be thin.