Food addiction, orthorexia, and food-related stress among dietetics students.

Purpose: Health sciences, and in particular Nutrition and Dietetics students, have been shown to exhibit an increased prevalence of disordered eating. The aim of the present cross-sectional study was to evaluate other specified feeding and eating disorders (OSFEDs), including stress-related eating, food addiction, and orthorexia, in relation to the dietary intake, among nutrition/dietetics students.

Methods: A total of 176 undergraduate students from a Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, in Greece, participated in the study.