stackyFACTS
Health

When healthy eating becomes an eating disorder

HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART

Eating kale shouldn't be a competitive sport. Orthorexia is an eating disorder where the individual is so paralyzed by the need to eat completely pure and clean foods that they end up severely malnourished. They successfully avoid all processed sugars, right up until their internal organs start shutting down.

When healthy eating becomes an eating disorder
STACKY / Health
One discovery leads to another.

Keep exploring facts in this topic.

Health →
STACKY FOR IPHONE

A bigger world.
One discovery
at a time.

Keep discovering with Stacky. Interesting facts in an app that is always within reach.

Download on the App Store
ONE MORE DISCOVERY?

Keep exploring

All in this topic →
Eating your hair can create a giant stomach hairball
Health

Eating your hair can create a giant stomach hairball

A fairy tale name for an absolute gastrointestinal nightmare. Caused by trichophagia, this extremely rare psychological condition involves individuals…

Discover more
Consuming majority of daily calories during the midnight span
Health

Consuming majority of daily calories during the midnight span

The fridge light is the only illumination they need. This disorder combines delayed circadian rhythms with an uncontrollable urge to binge-eat in the middle…

Discover more
Fixating intensely on entirely invisible physical flaws
Health

Fixating intensely on entirely invisible physical flaws

Looking in the mirror and seeing a funhouse reflection that ruins your entire week. Body dysmorphic disorder traps individuals in a relentless cycle of…

Discover more
Chewing your food thoroughly increases the production of hormones linked to satiety and reduces the total amount of calories you consume during a meal.
Health

Chewing your food thoroughly increases the production of hormones linked to satiety and reduces the total amount of calories you consume during a meal.

Chewing your food thoroughly increases the production of hormones linked to satiety and reduces the total amount of calories you consume during a meal. The…

Discover more
Devouring monstrous amounts of food without any control
Health

Devouring monstrous amounts of food without any control

It is far beyond a casual holiday feast. Binge eating disorder involves frequent episodes of devouring abnormally large quantities of food in a rapid span,…

Discover more
You got exactly 8 hours of sleep, but woke up feeling like you were hit by a bus. What went wrong during the night?
Health

You got exactly 8 hours of sleep, but woke up feeling like you were hit by a bus. What went wrong during the night?

You got exactly 8 hours of sleep, but woke up feeling like you were hit by a bus. What went wrong during the night?

Discover more
StackyMore discoveries in the app
Download on the App Store