ARFID

American  

[ahr-fid] / ˈɑr fɪd /

abbreviation

1. Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, a disorder involving the avoidance of certain foods, a generally restricted or limited diet, or both, resulting in clinically significant nutritional, medical, or psychosocial impairment.

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Example Sentences

For people with ARFID, food aversion—not body image distress—is at the core of their disorder.

From Slate • Jan. 4, 2025

"There is no standard of care, there are no guidelines for GPs to work from, so of course many of them have no knowledge of ARFID," she says.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2021

Gillian Harris, a psychologist at the University of Birmingham, says that while there have not been any studies on the prevalence of ARFID, from her experience about one in 500 children are affected.

From BBC • Dec. 31, 2021

That’s because he’s already shown that he doesn’t have the condition I think your husband has, which is known as ARFID, avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder.

From Slate • May 10, 2021

I learned about this disorder from Virginia Sole-Smith’s great book The Eating Instinct, by the way, which has a whole chapter of interviews with people who have ARFID, many of whom have kids.

From Slate • May 10, 2021