orthorexia

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Whether or not you think orthorexia is a valid diagnosis (it's not yet in the DSM, but these things can lag), the article's stories of children paralyzed by fear of food will affect you.

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  • Whether or not you think orthorexia is a valid diagnosis (it's not yet in the DSM, but these things can lag), the article's stories of children paralyzed by fear of food will affect you. —  Kate Harding's Shapely Prose
  • Peck believes that the new eating disorder related term "orthorexia," coined by Steven Bratman, a Colorado MD, falls into the category of disordered eating. —  Stories from The Sun
  • Coined by Colorado physician Dr. Steven Bratman, the term orthorexia applies to people who obsess over eating healthy food. —  Lead Stories from AOL
  • Otherwise known as "health food junkies," people with orthorexia are so concerned with maintaining a healthy diet free of fat, preservatives or sugar that they allow it to interfere with daily life. —  Lead Stories from AOL
  • I'm all for the idea of drawing awareness to the sad world of the eating disordered once approached cautiously, but for crying out loud I'm sick to death of the immediate response and definition to eating disorder meaning 'one that suffers from anorexia or bulimia' and it really angers and frustrates me how coe and bed and even orthorexia are all undermined as if they aren't as painful or powerful or dangerous. —  mamaVISION
 

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