1 day ago by Heidi Kiewitt

Orthorexia and the New Rules of Clean Eating (Part 1) By Tom Venuto www.burnthefat.com Clean eating has no official definition, but it’s usually described as avoiding processed foods, chemicals, preservatives and artificial ingredients. Instead, clean eaters choose natural foods, the way they came o ...

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2 days ago by Arielle Bair Becker

Here it is, the first work of art in my Calling All Art! Show & Tell and Giveaway. This piece is by Veggie and is called "Recovery Way."[click for a larger view]Veggie writes:"Some parts of this drawing/collage are in English, others are in Italian (as I am Italian), so I’m translating the Italian o ...

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5 days ago by Arielle Bair Becker

Question # 12 comes from Stella. It’s one of two questions she posed, but the second one will come later, as this post is quite lengthy. She asks, “How do you react when you feel hate for yourself and your body? What do you do when you feel overwhelmed, instead of hurting yourself or restricting?” A ...

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5 days ago by Maria

You have probably heard about anorexia, bulimia, and the binge eating disorder by now. How about an eating disorder called orthorexia? Orthorexia is a real eating disorder marked by an obsession with healthy eating. People afflicted with it stick to a very strict healthy eating regimen and may avoid ...

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8 days ago by Darya Pino

By lepiaf.geo Is it possible for healthy eating to become an unhealthy obsession? Absolutely. Orthorexia is a word turning up frequently in the media to describe an excessive focus on healthy eating and dietary restriction. Though the term is not yet an official psychological diagnosis according to ...

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12 days ago by FitSugar

If you're reading this site, chances are you're into eating healthy. While it's beneficial to be conscious about what you put in your mouth, it's not good to become so obsessed that your lifestyle goes from a healthy diet to an unhealthy fixation on a healthy diet. The condition is referred to as an ...

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15 days ago by veronica

Orthorexia is the latest love-hate relationship that has developed between mainly women and food. Orthorexia is “a fairly new classification of eating disorder characterized by an utter obsession for healthy eating. For the orthorexic, disavowing cheese, fat, meat and bread is a way to feel pure and ...

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16 days ago by samibtx

You may or may not have heard about the so-called “new” eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia ). Instead of focusing mainly on being thin practically regardless of bodily harm, the orthorectic is obsessed with eating purely & utterly healthily. Often eve ...

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21 days ago by Cynthia Lair

I poked my head into the office of my friend and colleague Kelly Morrow, MS, RD on the third floor of Bastyr University the other day. We sometimes chat about our families or the school but more often we share notes about trends we are seeing in eating and nutrition. Last week Kelly brought up her c ...

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27 days ago by Eating Healthy

Orthorexia is a new-ish eating disorder. As far as I can tell, it's pretty much the same as anorexia except that the impetus is not body image as much as it is purity of foods - which leads me to see in the OCD spectrum (mental health professionals might likely disagree with this view). Like anorexi ...

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