Orthorexia
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- Identifying Orthorexia in Healthy Food EatersEating healthy foods is a common part of the dietary plan for many adults. When the obsession with healthy foods leads to abnormal health issues, the condition of orthorexia may be to blame. Here is what food conscious adults need to know.
- Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Turns DangerousGood dietary choices are necessary to a healthy body. But when health becomes an obsession, it can be dangerous.
- Can You Eat Too Healthy?Even good things like a healthy diet can be taken too far. Read about the plight of orthorexics - people who taking eating too healthy to an extreme.
- Orthorexia in the News: An Eating Disorder That's Part of a Growing American ProblemAn offshoot of the sometimes deadly eating disorder anorexia nervosa, orthorexia describes another disease of our times - obsession with "healthy eating" to the point where it is actually very unhealthy. Here's how it happens, and what to do about it.
Orthorexia: Judging the Lifestyles of Others and the Potential Impacts on ChildrenObsessed with living a healthy lifestyle and eating a balanced, organic diet, orthorexia is also characterized by the judgment placed on those who don't live a similar lifestyle. Children may suffer most when judged by an orthorexic parent.- Orthorexia is a Dangerous Obsession with "Healthy" EatingToo much of "healthy" eating can easily turn into an eating disorder that is called orthorexia.
- Orthorexia: An Unhealthy Addiction to Healthy FoodsA brief overview of the orthorexia condition.
- Are You Addicted to Health Food?There's a new disorder on the block and though probably not as life-threatening as starving or binging, addiction to healthy foods, or orthorexia, can actually damage your health!