Introduction: Awareness of healthy nutrition has become the primary focus of people who belong to a developed society. However, the boundary between healthy selectivity and pathological obsession in the choice of food is thin. Obsession with healthy eating begins to affect its activities, interests and relationships, and it becomes dangerous. Social isolation often occurs as a person plans all his life around food while losing his ability to intuitively eat. Obsession with "healthy eating" or orthorexia nervosa is a disorder called in 1997 by American physician Steven Bratman. Usually, the orthorexia begins with a completely innocent attempt at a healthier diet that gradually becomes obsessed with the quality and integrity of food products. Purpose: The purpose of the master's thesis is to determine whether or not anxiety of nervousness also occurs among students of three selected faculties in Slovenia, how common it is, which are the risk factors or characteristics of persons contributing to the development of orthorexia, thus increasing the attention of people who are more vulnerable to the development of this eating disorder. Methods: We will use a series of quantitative and qualitative approaches, which will use a deductive approach, based on which we will formulate hypotheses that in the literature encountered contradictory statements by researchers. The strategy that we will use will be a cross-sectional study. The subject of research is the incidence and characteristics of orthorexia, the population will be represented by Slovenian students, while the units of observation will be students of three selected faculties. Results: The proportion of persons who reached the ORTO-15 questionnaire by a score of <40, indicating that a person may have or have an orthorexia is 77.7%, only 22.3% of the persons are completely excluded from the possibility of occurrence orthorexia, orthorexia at <35 points (ie 34.99 points) has 20 persons out of 159 respondents, which represents a 27% share. On average, our respondents scored 36.93 points with a range of min 28 points and a maximum of 44 points. Discussion and conclusion: Eating disorders, including orthorexia nervosa, are largely present among us. It is not only the amount of food consumed but also other types of food insecurity, such as the tendency for an unquestioned strict diet and a movement leading to deficits. As diets can be triggers of orthorexia, the best prevention is a balanced diet and moderate physical activity.
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