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orthorexia
(redirected from Orthorexia nervosa)

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orthorexia - An obsession with eating only "healthy" food.
See also related terms for healthy.
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Orthorexia nervosa - another form of the disease in an individual that contains only healthy food, and is well chosen, including food, hygiene and natural ingredients, which in the end times suffer food obsession.
Basic Forms of Eating Disorders by Semul Johnson / Food/cooking/nutrition community
First diagnosed by California doctor Steven Bratman in 1997, the condition, orthorexia nervosa, can lead to victims becoming malnourished as they reject food or drink perceived as "bad".
Healthy eating junkies by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
Holistic physician Steven Brat-man coined the term orthorexia nervosa more than a decade ago.
Obsessed with health: orthorexics take healthy eating to the extreme by Tsoukanelis, Erika Alexia / Our Planet
 
 
 
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