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	Clarifying Orthorexia--Obsession with Dietary Purity
		NEWS (10 May 2007): A writer for the new British magazine LOOK is working on an article on orthorexia, and she is interested in contacting women in their 20's who have experienced the condition.
		Orthorexia is a long-term behavior pattern, not short-
		In order for orthorexia to be a disorder, all that is required is for it to have a significant, negative impact on an individual's life.
	www.beyondveg.com /billings-t/orthorexia/orthorexia-1a.shtml (2223 words)

	orthorexia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia Nervosa, or an obsession with healthy food and exercise, is not officially a diagnosis.
		Orthorexia was proposed by Steven Bratman, M.D., to describe an unhealthy fixation on healthy practices such as consuming health foods and exercising.
		A person with Orthorexia may not be obsessed with losing weight or counting calories such as in Anorexia, or ridding oneself of food following a binge as in Bulimia, but instead, they take healthy to extremes.
	www.geocities.com /independant1369/orthorexia.html (165 words)

	Resources & Activities: New Words
		Orthorexia describes a constraining desire to eat the healthiest food possible, usually food in its purest form which has not been contaminated by additives or cooking processes.
		Orthorexia is also associated with an extreme obsession with cleanliness of cooking environments and sterilisation of cooking utensils.
		orthorexia is not valid as a bona fide eating disorder since, unlike other identified psychological conditions, it does not always begin with an attitude of low self-esteem.
	www.macmillandictionary.com /New-Words/040103-orthorexia.htm (374 words)

	Orthorexia nervosa -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa in full, is closely related to the disorder ((psychiatry) a psychological disorder characterized by somatic delusions that you are too fat despite being emaciated) anorexia nervosa.
		With anorexia, the sufferer has an unhealthy obsession to (additional info and facts about lose weight) lose weight while with orthorexia, the subject has an unhealthy obsession with " (additional info and facts about healthful eating) healthful eating".
		Bratman coined the term for the condition in 1997 from the (A native or inhabitant of Greece) Greek orthos, "correct or right", and orexis for "appetite".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/o/or/orthorexia_nervosa.htm (139 words)

	Orthorexia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa in full, is closely related to the disorder anorexia nervosa.
		With anorexia, the sufferer has an unhealthy obsession to lose weight while with orthorexia, the subject has an unhealthy obsession with "healthy eating".
		The subject may avoid certain types of food, such as those containing fats, preservatives or animal products.
	www.bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/o/or/orthorexia.html (129 words)

	Orthorexia: als gezond eten een obsessie wordt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Hoewel orthorexia een beetje klinkt als anorexia, zijn de onderliggende redenen van beide eetstoornissen niet hetzelfde.
		Orthorexia is vaak meer een bron van psychologische stress dan een fysiek gevaar.
		Sommigen zeggen dat orthorexia geen eetstoornis is om dat het niet begint met een laag zelfvertrouwen.
	www.lowcarbmagazine.nl /10000095891407b15/10000096170db4110.html (500 words)

	Finding Balance
		Orthorexia Nervosa is a form of disordered eating characterized by going to extremes in pursuit of a so-called healthy diet.
		Literally translated, it means “fixation on righteous eating.” A person with this condition obsesses over the quality of the foods they eat, in an attempt to perfect his or her diet.
		Although a person with orthorexia may become too thin, their obsession is primarily with eating healthy, not losing weight.
	www.findingbalance.com /libraries/101/disorders/orthorexia.asp (322 words)

	The Seattle Times: Health & Science: Are raw-food diets enlightened or inane? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bratman coined the term "orthorexia nervosa," which he defines as a "pathological fixation on eating proper food" in one book, and he is now writing another book about some of the pitfalls of holistic medicine.
		Orthorexia nervosa borrows from the term anorexia nervosa, but adds "ortho," meaning straight, correct or true.
		"Orthorexia is disordered eating," said Leslie Bonci, spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association and the director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/healthscience/2001702279_orthorexics030.html (1914 words)

	Weight Loss and Health: Orthorexia
		If you spend excessive amounts of time thinking about how healthy the food you eat is and planning and preparing food becomes a dominant force in your life, or the quality of your diet has increased while the quality of your life decreased you could be a victim.
		Orthorexia is considered an eating disorder, but is different than anorexia or bulimia.
		This obsession can become so bad the person suffering will chide him or her self for days if so much as a tablespoon of ice cream was consumed, or the broccoli they did eat was cooked and not raw as they believe raw is much better for you.
	www.weightloss-info.com /articles/40.shtml (549 words)

	Orthorexia Nervosa - Talk Medical (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia nervosa: A term designating a disorder in which there is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating, an extreme dedication to extreme diets that can starve the body of basic nutrition.
		The emphasis (or overemphasis) is on the quality, not the quantity, of food in the diet.
		Orthorexia nervosa is not yet recognized (as of March, 2002) as an accepted medical entity.
	www.talkmd.com /medical-dictionary/print-10367 (92 words)

	Read about Orthorexia nervosa at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Orthorexia nervosa and learn about Orthorexia ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		You are welcome to edit this article, but please do not blank, merge, or move this article, nor remove this notice, while the discussion is in progress.
		Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa in full, is closely related to the disorder
		With anorexia, the sufferer has an unhealthy obsession to lose weight while with orthorexia, the subject has an unhealthy obsession with "healthful eating".
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Orthorexia_nervosa (261 words)

	Fruitarianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fruitarians allegedly often develop strong cravings for dates (for their high sugar content) and avocados (for their high fat content).
		Some fruitarians develop a type of eating disorder called orthorexia.
		Anyone adopting a fruitarian diet should be aware of what nutrients their body needs and what supplements they will have to take.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fruitarianism (608 words)

	Orthorexia
		One of the seductive aspects of orthorexia is that it allows one to feel superior to other people.
		Orthorexia seems to be right up there with good work habits and a clean life.
		In this, orthorexia has an aspect that can make it harder to shake than other eating disorders: While anorexics and bulimics feel ashamed of their habits, orthorexics strut with pride.
	www.skwigg.com /id8.html (1190 words)

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		People with this disorder develop loathing towards some food items fearing illness or harm to their health and, in the process, deny themselves vitamins and minerals which are necessary for the body to function normally.
		Sometimes, orthorexia is confused with another eating disorder, anorexia nervosa, wherein individuals are choosy about their diet and want to lose weight.
		Orthorexia is a disorder that is a source of psychological distress.
	www.hinduonnet.com /thehindu/thscrip/print.pl?file=2005052314600400.htm&date=2005/05/23/&prd=th& (294 words)

	Pale Reflections - Eating disorders community
		Orthorexia is a pathological obsession with eating proper food.
		The long-term consequences of orthorexia depend on the diet the person has imposed upon themselves.
		Orthorexia is not a condition your doctor will diagnose.
	www.pale-reflections.com /ednos.asp?page=orthorexia (334 words)

	Psychology Today: Orthorexia: Too Healthy?
		A: The term orthorexia is used by some eating-disorder specialists to describe an unhealthy fixation with healthy eating.
		The word orthorexia was coined in 1997 by Colorado alternative medicine specialist Steven Bratman.
		Although many experts believe orthorexia may be a genuine concern, some think it's not a clinically useful diagnosis.
	cms.psychologytoday.com /articles/pto-20041202-000004.html (315 words)

	Orthorexia Nervosa
		Orthorexia nervosa, a new term coined by Steven Bratman, M.D., refers to this obsession with eating "proper" foods.
		It is common for individuals who are on diets to be concerned with what types of food they are eating, but this concern should quickly decrease as they near or achieve their desired weight.
		In the case of orthorexia nervosa, people remain consumed with what types of food they allow themselves to eat, and feel badly about themselves if they fail to stick to their diet.
	www.pamf.org /teen/life/bodyimage/orthorexia.html (415 words)

	Other Types of Eating Disorders - The Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders
		Prader-Willi Syndrome is a congenital condition (present at birth) and is believed to be caused by an abnormality in the genes that occurs (though statistically it does not seem to run in families).
		Orthorexia Nervosa is an obsession with a "pure" diet, where it interferes with a person's life.
		When the person suffering with Orthorexia Nervosa slips up from wavering from their "perfect" diet, they may resort to extreme acts of further self-disipline including even strictor regimens and fasting.
	www.something-fishy.org /whatarethey/other.php (2147 words)

	What is Orthorexia Nervosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia Nervosa is a term coined by Dr. Steven Bratman, who first published his insights to the readers of Yoga Journal in 1997.
		In Bratman's experience, a person struggling with Orthorexia Nervosa is someone obsessed with nutritional and physical purity, frequently to the point of emaciation.
		While the motivation is slightly different, the rituals around food, the strong need for control, the obsessive ideation, and the harmful belief that life will be better when the person achieves their goal, adds up to archetypal eating disordered behavior.
	www.compulsiveeating.com /WhatisOrthorexiaNervosa.htm (631 words)

	Lycos Search Results: web results for orthorexia 1 thru 10 of 6,500
		Orthorexia begins, innocently enough, as a desire to overcome chronic illness...
		While orthorexia nervosa isn't yet a formal medical condition, many doctors do feel that it explains an important and growing health phenomenon....
		Orthorexia also can be induced by a host of extreme diets: raw foodism, with the mantra "The greatest enemy of man is the cooking stove";
	search.lycos.com /?query=orthorexia (239 words)

	Orthorexia: Good Diets Gone Bad - Eating Disorders Center
		Bratman is author of Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia: Overcoming the Obsession with Healthful Eating, released in 2001.
		Various articles written on orthorexia have brought him calls from all over the country.
		Bratman notes that sometimes orthorexia overlaps with a psychological problem like obsessive-compulsive disorder.
	www.healthyplace.com /Communities/Eating_Disorders/type_orthorexia.asp (1268 words)

	Message board. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia begins, innocently enough, as a desire to overcome chronic illness or to improve general health.
		As orthorexia progresses, a day filled with sprouts, umeboshi plums, and amaranth biscuits comes to feel as holy as one spent serving the poor and homeless.
		Most often, orthorexia is merely a source of psychological distress, not a physical danger.
	www.cgi2you.com /cgi-bin/message.pl?whatdo=viewtopic&user=pinkangels&topic=00492 (3665 words)

	The Word Spy - orthorexia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia also can be induced by a host of extreme diets: raw foodism, with the mantra "The greatest enemy of man is the cooking stove"; macrobiotics, which mandates that vegetables be sliced in a certain fashion; the self-explanatory fruitarianism; and breatharianism, extreme fasting.
		Orthorexia modifies this by substituting the prefix ortho-, correct or proper.
		And in the same way that a sufferer of anorexia (also: anorexia nervosa) is called an (or is described as) anorexic, a sufferer of orthorexia (orthorexia nervosa) is an (or is described as) orthorexic.
	www.wordspy.com /words/orthorexia.asp (255 words)

	World Wide Words: Orthorexia
		In their search for dietary purity, they may become so restrictive about what they eat — for example, avoiding fatty foods, those containing preservatives, those with salt or sugar — that eventually they become as dangerously thin as an anorexic.
		He coined orthorexia in 1997 on the pattern of anorexia, from Greek orthos, “correct or right”, plus orexis, “appetite”.
		Though the word is beginning to appear in the US and Britain, largely as a result of his book, it is not a recognised medical condition.
	www.worldwidewords.org /turnsofphrase/tp-ort1.htm (269 words)

	Orthorexia : Als te 'gezond eten' ongezond wordt ? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia (pathologische fixatie op gezond eten): een nieuwe eetstoornis ?
		Hij heeft gelijk als hij argumenteert dat anorexia, boulimia en orthorexia allemaal inhoudt dat 'voedsel een overdreven plaats in het leven krijgt'.
		Orthorexia - Als te 'gezond eten' ongezond wordt ?
	www.eetstoornis.be /anorexia_survival_15.htm (1418 words)

	Boulder Weekly \| NewsandViews \| CoverStory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia, a term coined by Dr. Bratman, means an addiction to health food and extreme regimens of food denial.
		People with orthorexia think they are engaged in virtuous behavior, yet they can't eat at parties, they can't go out to dinner with friends, and they spend a huge percentage of their lives preparing meals they believe won't make them impure."
		Bratman's bout with orthorexia began with a diet that stressed the importance of eating only fresh fruits and vegetables.
	www.boulderweekly.com /archive/053002/waynesword.html (955 words)

	Orthorexia - Scholieren.com Forum
		ik heb zelf geen orthorexia gehad, wel anorexia.
		Maar het is niet specifiek iets dat bij orthorexia hoort, dat is vooral dat iemand (naar zijn eigen "theorieën") heel "gezond" gaat eten.
		Het verschil tussen orthorexia en anorexia is dat mensen met anorexia een laag zelfbeeld hebben en mensen met orthorexia niet.
	forum.scholieren.com /showthread.php?goto=lastpost&threadid=1131452 (550 words)

	The orthorexia
		The danger of orthorexia resides in that the person continuously preaches the health of his diet, and at the same time he puts his health in danger.
		Women are more inclined than men to fall into orthorexia, as they are determined to obsess with food in a form that men are not.
		One day you felt bad after eating a certain food type and now you believe that you are allergic to it because it caused eruptions, diarrhea, nausea and swelling lip, tongue and mouth.
	www.obesidad.net /english2002/disorder3.shtml (457 words)

	GayHealth: Food and Fitness
		Bratman’s theory of orthorexia has been somewhat controversial, and some doctors have asserted that orthorexia is not a legitimate scientific diagnosis since it has not been studied medically.
		"Orthorexia is not intended to be a medical diagnosis," he argues.
		But for some, breaking free of orthorexia may be too hard to do on their own.
	www.gayhealth.com /templates/1103045520234451922122/fitness/index.html?record=497 (1022 words)

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