food anxiety
Mealtime stress disorder
Food anxiety is persistent worry or distress related to eating, food choices, or meals.
It may involve fear of certain foods, obsession over "healthy" eating, panic about food availability, or social anxiety around eating with others.
The term covers a spectrum from mild unease to patterns that interfere with daily life: Her food anxiety made restaurant dinners stressful.
It often overlaps with but is distinct from clinical eating disorders.
- eating disorderMental illness affecting nutrition
- bingeBout of excess
- purgeEliminate unwanted elements
- restrictionLimit on action
- caloriesMeasures of food energy
calorie counting · guilt · weight · scale · body image · orthorexia · clean eating · anorexia · starving · overeating · shame · control · obsession · mealtimes · nausea · dread · stomach · trigger
- eating psychologyemotional eating, comfort eating, stress eating, intuitive eating, mindful eating
- eating disordersanorexia, bulimia, anorexia nervosa, binge eating, bulimia nervosa
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