Table 2.

Item Loadings of the Initial and Short Version of the Eating Habits Questionnaire (EHQ)

	Initial version		Short version
	HeOr	OrNe	HeOr	OrNe
E01. I am more informed than others about healthy eating	0.79	− 0.05	0.80	− 0.03
E02. I turn down social offers that involve eating unhealthy food	0.62	0.11	0.64	0.12
E03. The way my food is prepared is important in my diet	0.82	− 0.12	0.81	− 0.11
*E04. I follow a diet with many rules	0.51	0.31	–	–
*E05. My eating habits are superior to others	0.31	0.52	–	–
E06. I am distracted by thoughts of eating healthily	0.00	0.73	0.01	0.72
E07. I only eat what my diet allows	0.18	0.63	0.18	0.63
E08. My healthy eating is a significant source of stress in my relationships	− 0.19	0.97	− 0.16	0.96
*E09. I have made efforts to eat more healthily over time	0.50	0.33	–	–
E10. My diet affects the type of employment I would take	− 0.22	0.94	− 0.20	0.93
E11. My diet is better than other people’s diets	0.78	0.06	0.79	0.07
E12. I feel in control when I eat healthily	0.80	0.00	0.80	0.01
E13. In the past year, friends or family members have told me that I’m overly concerned with eating healthily	0.19	0.65	0.22	0.64
*E14. I have difficulty finding restaurants that serve the foods I eat	0.39	0.38	–	–
E15. Eating the way I do gives me a sense of satisfaction	0.72	0.02	0.64	0.05
*E16. Few foods are healthy for me to eat	0.37	0.34	–	–
E17. I go out less since I began eating healthily	0.16	0.63	0.18	0.62
E18. I spend more than three hours a day thinking about healthy food	0.06	0.75	0.08	0.74
E19. I feel great when I eat healthily	0.58	0.19	0.46	0.24
E20. I follow a health-food diet rigidly	0.17	0.69	0.16	0.68
*E21. I prepare food in the most healthful way	0.42	0.42	–	–

HeOr, Healthy Orthorexia; OrNe, Orthorexia Nervosa; Bold values indicate loadings, in absolute value, over0.30. – indicates items not included in the short version. Item wording with as asterisk correspond to items not included in the short version