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Orthorexia Nervosa (ON) is defined as obsession with healthy eating. It is known that the purity is more important than amount or energies of consumed food in people with ON.With this condition,ON results in restrictions on food intake in individuals.According to the literature, health professionals are in the risk group of ON. The aim of this study is to examine orthorexia nervosa symptoms and eating attitudes of medicine students. This cross-sectional study was conducted on 298 students who educated Inonu University Faculty of Medicine in 2017.Data collection tools were General Information Form,ORTO-15,EAT-40.SPSS 22.0 and Pearson Exact,Fisher’s,Chi-Square tests were used for statistical analysis. %76.2 of students had orthorexia tendency, %11.1 of students had eating disorders. 24 aged students were found to less orthorexic than others and obese students tend to have less orthorexic than others. It was found that when reached true information about nutrition, individuals who changed their eating behavior always had more orthorexic than rarely. It was found that when reached true information about nutrition, individuals who changed their eating behavior always had more eating disorders rate (EDR) than others. It was found individuals who received information from book-scientific publications had EDR than others and individuals who received information from dietitians had higher EDR than those who did not (p < 0.05). In addition, %12.3 of the individuals who tend to orthorexia and %7 of the individuals who tend to without orthorexia were found to have eating disorders.However,the difference between groups was not statistically significant (p > 0.05). According to our results, it is emphasized that question which “Is ON an eating disorder?”. In addition, we believe that our study will contribute to the literature because ON, eating attitudes and information sources of nutrition are examined together on medicine students. When individuals have access to nutritional information, behavior change states affect the tendency to orthorexia nervosa and eating disorders. Nutritional and psychotherapeutic interventions for behavioral regulation of individuals are thought to reduce the tendency of orthorexia nervosa and eating disorders.