mental health

One of the newest eating disorders, orthorexia, is becoming more prevalent.

This eating disorder, where sufferers have a "fixation on righteous eating," was named in 1997 by Steven Bratman, a Californian doctor.

The chair of the British Dietetic Association's mental health group, Ursula Philpot, said she's seen a big rise in the number of orthorexics in the UK over the past few years. She explained that these people:

A study of 3,000 European men has indicated that vitamin D helps to keep us mentally agile in later life.

The research was carried out by David Lee and colleagues at the University of Manchester in the UK, and published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psychiatry.