{
  "id": 6278858,
  "title": "TikTok and Instagram wellness posts may reinforce restrictive eating ideals, study finds",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/tiktok-and-instagram-wellness-posts-may-reinforce-restrictive-eating",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-08T11:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-tiktok-instagram-wellness-restrictive-ideals.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Healthy eating content on social media may be promoting more than well-being, with new Flinders University research finding popular wellness posts often reflect attitudes and behaviors linked to orthorexia nervosa, an unhealthy obsession with eating foods considered healthy or pure.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}