
Sigma Nutrition Radio
#602: Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) β Megan Hellner, DrPH, RD & Katherine Hill, MD
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21 Apr 2026 Β· 50 min
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Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID) is an eating disorder diagnosis characterized by a persistent restriction or avoidance of food intake that results in clinically significant consequences (medical, nutritional, and/or psychosocial), but without the weight- and shape-driven psychopathology typical of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In this episode, Megan Hellner and Katherine Hill outline how ARFID presents across the lifespan, why it is frequently missed in routine healthca