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	Orthorexia nervosa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Orthorexia, or orthorexia nervosa is a term coined by Dr. Steven Bratman, a Colorado specialist, to denote what he considers to be an eating disorder characterized by a "fixation" on eating healthful food.
		Bratman describes orthorexia as an unhealthy obsession with what the sufferer considers to be healthy eating.
		L.M. Donini, D. Marsili, M.P. Graziani, M. Imbriale, and C. Cannella: Orthorexia nervosa: A preliminary study with a proposal for diagnosis and an attempt to measure the dimension of the phenomenon, Eating and Weight Disorders, Vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orthorexia (235 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)

	Orthorexia Nervosa
		Whereas anorexia nervosa is an obsession with the quantity of food one eats, it is also possible to be obsessed with eating foods of a certain quality.
		Orthorexia nervosa, a new term coined by Steven Bratman, M.D., refers to this obsession with eating "proper" foods.
		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 (406 words)

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		Orthorexia is not recognized as a clinically significant eating disorder, as is anorexia and bulimia.
		Orthorexia has been referred to as a trend, a subclinical eating disorder, a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and a disorder all its own.
		Orthorexia is not a disorder that your doctor will diagnose because it is a relatively new and controversial condition.
	www.dolfzine.com /page332.htm (3510 words)

	An extreme obsession with "healthy" eating habits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		And while orthorexia nervosa is not an "official" medical term yet, I'm sure I'm not alone in believing it should be...
		He suggests that orthorexia nervosa may be even more widespread nowadays than either of its finger-down-the-throat stable mates.
		Theories abound as to why orthorexia has become so common, but the most intriguing notion among them is the idea that in this day and age, a person's "dietary identity" is crucial to self-esteem-and the more extreme the diet, the better it serves as a tool for self-definition...
	www.realhealthnews.com /dailydose/dd200303/dd20030311a.html (398 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.
		You won't find Orthorexia Nervosa in the Diagnostic Statistic Manual, (DSM IV TR), yet, but his work is being taken seriously by those in the eating disorder community.
	www.islandnet.com /~mmorand/WhatisOrthorexiaNervosa.htm (600 words)

	Floating Leafs ...COE, bulimarexia, exersize mia, chewing & spiting (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.
		An individual with Orthorexia Nervosa may become so intensely fixated on health regimens that they neglect other important things in their lives.
	floatinleafs.topcities.com /other.html (1640 words)

	Other Types of Eating Disorders - The Something Fishy Website on Eating Disorders
		It should be noted that Orthorexia Nervosa is not a condition that a physician will diagnose, as there is no clinical guideline for this disorder.
		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)

	Health 24 - Weight loss - Teen diet section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Zamora and coworkers point out, at the present moment, orthorexia nervosa is not yet officially recognised as a separate eating disorder, but its incidence is increasing in western countries.
		Thus, orthorexia nervosa is also characterised by abnormal eating patterns as is the case in anorexia nervosa and bulimia.
		In view of the obsessive characteristics of orthorexia nervosa, it is possible that patients with this eating disorder also suffered from childhood obsessive-compulsive behaviour.
	www.health24.com /dietnfood/Weight_Centre/15-51-2988-3159,34609.asp (862 words)

	When health becomes an obsession
		Orthorexia Nervosa it an exaggeration of a positive development.
		I admit that techno-based Orthorexia Nervosa is hard to diagnose.
		Techno-based Orthorexia Nervosa isn't much different - as long as we're willing to be scared by incredible stories of doom and gloom, we're likely to be carrying this modern pathology.
	www.mediatoolbox.co.za /pebble.asp?p=57&relid=3121 (647 words)

	Turns of Phrase: Orthorexia
		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.
		Whereas anorexia nervosa and bulimia are afflictions that involve an obsession with the quantity of food consumed, orthorexia nervosa occurs when the victim becomes obsessed, explains Bratman, “not with the quantity of food eaten but the quality of food.”
	www.worldwidewords.org /turnsofphrase/tp-ort1.htm (243 words)

	Product Details
		Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa—disorders in which the sufferer focuses on the quantity of food eaten—have been highly documented over the past decade.
		This is the first book to identify this new eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, and offer advice on how to cope with it.
		Orthorexia nervosa occurs when the victim becomes obsessed, not with the quantity of food eaten, but the quality of the food.
	www.ecookbooks.com /products.html?affiliateID=51066&item=00510 (248 words)

	Message board. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orthorexia is usually more of a source of psychological distress than real physical danger.
		Treatment is tricky, because people with orthorexia will consider drugs such as antidepressants to be "impure" and "unnatural." The same goes for weight gain aids such as Ensure, because they contain verboten substances such as sugar, artificial colors, and artificial flavors.
		Orthorexia is not yet a DSM diagnosis, but academic investigation into it has begun.
	www.cgi2you.com /members/message/pinkangels/00492.shtml (3665 words)

	MedForumsLive.com - Orthorexia nervosa (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.medforumslive.com /dictionary/o/Op-Ot/Orthorexia_nervosa.html (114 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Magazine \| 'I am an orthorexic'
		Orthorexia nervosa is an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
		Orthorexia is a modern condition, as yet unrecognised by the medical profession.
		Besides, orthorexia only becomes dangerous when it's taken to extremes and you become seriously underweight.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/magazine/4389849.stm (844 words)

	StarBulletin.com \| Features \| /2005/11/17/
		People with orthorexia nervosa are happy to finally have a complicated Greek word assigned to their condition because, until now, they were simply known as "picky eaters."
		Orthorexia nervosa can now share the stage with such well-known eating disorders as anorexia nervosa, bulimia and, I suppose, good old-fashioned gluttony.
		Mayorexia nervosa: The perfectly normal revulsion to mayonnaise, characterized by screaming hissy fits whenever a cook contaminates your cheeseburger with the dreaded white slime.
	starbulletin.com /2005/11/17/features/memminger.html (540 words)

	Orthorexia nervosa - obsessed with eating to improve your health (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		A new type of eating disorder is emerging where people are becoming obsessed with eating to improve their health.
		According to the Swiss Food Association, this new wave of nutritional obsession, known as ‘Orthorexia’ or ‘Orthorexia nervosa’, from the Greek “orthos” meaning right and correct, and “orexis” meaning appetite, is reaching worrying proportions.
		This behaviour is similar to those who suffer from anorexia or bulimia nervosa, except that anorexics and bulimics are concerned with the quantity of food consumed whereas orthorexics are concerned with the quality.
	www.medicalnewstoday.com /medicalnews.php?newsid=13695&nfid=rssfeeds (693 words)

	Anorexia Athletica and Orthorexia Nervosa
		Anorexia Athletica is a condition that stems off of Anorexia Nervosa.
		Orthorexia Nervosa is also a condition that stems off of Anorexia Nervosa.
		Orthorexia Nervosa litterally means a fixations on righteous eating.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /__121b_ffklsvuLx9fQew/D5rafOomLnjd9Ce9pQhggat8R52k= (311 words)

	Article on anorexia nervosa - IngentaConnect Endogenous glucose production and lipolysis in
		Despite the fact that anorexia nervosa is a debilitating disorder with serious psychological and The full text article is not available for purchase.
		The biggest challenge in treating anorexia nervosa is having the patient Anorexia nervosa is a serious and potentially deadly medical condition.
		Eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia are more common in women, An insightful article about eating disorders written by a 17 year old.
	anorexia.allinfosites.com /q/anorexia-article-on-anorexia-nervosa.htm (677 words)

	Wired News:
		As a cook and organic farmer at a large commune in New York state in the 1970s, Bratman was a self-described "extreme eater" who found himself in a hotbed of new age food theories contested by people in opposing dietary camps.
		Holly Hoff, a program director at the National Eating Disorders Association, said that while orthorexia had not yet officially joined the ranks of established eating disorders, it was increasingly an area of concern.
		But he added that one of the chief warning signs of orthorexia -- caring more about the "virtue" of a food than the pleasure you get from eating it -- should not be ignored.
	www.wired.com /news/culture/1,50368-0.html (1061 words)

	Health Food Junkie--Orthorexia Nervosa, the New Eating Disorder
		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.
		When an orthorexic slips up (which may involve anything from devouring a single raisin to consuming a gallon of Haagen Dazs ice cream and a large pizza), he experiences a fall from grace and must perform numerous acts of penitence.
	www.beyondveg.com /bratman-s/hfj/hf-junkie-1a.shtml (2311 words)

	Amazon.ca: Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession With Healthful Eating: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Health Food Junkies is the first book to identify this new eating disorder, orthorexia nervosa, and to offer detailed, practical advice on how to cope with and overcome it.
		What starts as a devotion to healthy eating can evolve into a pattern of incredibly strict diets; victims become so focused on eating a “pure” diet (usually raw vegetables and grains) that the planning and preparation of food come to play the dominant role in their lives.
		Steven Bratman suffered from orthorexia nervosa himself, and, in the process of overcoming it, became the first physician to diagnose the problem.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0767906306 (1842 words)

	New Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bratman has gone so far as to coin the term "orthorexia nervosa" meaning going to extremes in the pursuit of a diet that’s suppose to be good for you.
		Just as someone with anorexia nervosa fixates on how much food to eat, a person with orthorexia nervosa worries too much over food quality, trying endlessly to "perfect" his or her diet.
		Rather, "it is transferring too much of life’s meaning onto food that makes orthorexia an eating disorder." Dr. Bratman says, "If you simply eat healthy food but don’t give it more of a place in your life than it’s really due, you have a good diet which is a laudable goal.
	www.oznet.ksu.edu /geary/Donna/nn01/nn40801.htm (838 words)

	Metroactive News & Issues \| Orthorexia Nervosa
		Orthorexia Self-Test: Dr. Bratman has created a 10-question quiz to determine whether a person's relationship to health food is a virtue or a vice.
		Even those who aren't working in alternative health care say that signs of devotion to health food are cropping up in their daily lives, even if they aren't the ones suffering from orthorexia.
		After she and her boyfriend decided to adopt a vegan diet, she says her energy levels and confidence in the quality of her food were better than ever before.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/08.02.01/eating1-0131.html (2713 words)

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		In fact, I believe many of them have contracted a novel eating disorder, for which I have coined the name "orthorexia nervosa." The term uses "ortho," in its meaning as straight, correct and true, to modify "anorexia nervosa." Orthorexia nervosa refers to a fixation on eating proper food.
		When an orthorexic slips up, (which, depending on the pertinent theory, may involve anything from devouring a single raisin in violation of the law to consuming a gallon of Haagen Daz ice cream and a supreme pizza), he experiences a fall from grace, and must take on numerous acts of penitence.
		Orthorexia eventually reaches a point where the sufferer spends most of his time planning, purchasing and eating meals.
	www.electroherbalism.com /Naturopathy/Therapies/Diet/OrthorexiaNervosa.htm (3752 words)

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		During the current episode of Bulimia Nervosa, the person has used other inappropriate compensatory behaviors, such as fasting or excessive exercise, but has not regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas.
		During the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has not regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).
		I've always been uncomfortable with my ED (which I now know is a mixture of anorexia nervosa and night eating disorder thanks to this post), and your site has made me realize that while I may not be healthy, I'm not a complete and total failure at life.
	www.xanga.com /roxy_fragile_innocence/420154110/item.html (4480 words)

	thedailytimes.com - Doctor defines an obsession with healthy foods, calls it orthorexia - nervosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The term uses ``ortho,'' which means straight, correct and true, and ``nervosa'' to indicate obsession.
		Like anorexia nervosa and bulimia, the behavior of orthorexics is marked by obsession, he said.
		``Eventually orthorexia reaches a point at which the orthorexic devotes most of her life to planning, purchasing, preparing and eating meals,'' he wrote.
	www.thedailytimes.com /sited/story/html/96786 (825 words)

	Health Food Eating Disorders
		Orthorexia nervosa refers to a fixation on eating proper food
		The orthorexic's inner life becomes dominated by efforts to resist temptation, self-condemnation for lapses, self-praise for success at complying with the self-chosen regime, and feelings of superiority over others less pure in their dietary habits.
		However, when healthy eating becomes a disease in its own right, it is arguably worse than the health problems which began the cycle of fixation.
	chetday.com /healthfoodjunkie.html (3654 words)

	Book Review: Orthorexia Nervosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		When author Steven Bratman, M.D., first used the term "orthorexia nervosa" in a magazine article, he got some confused responses.
		But as most of us can guess from its similarity to anorexia, orthorexia is not an idealistic dietery theory but rather describes a problem: unhealthy obsession with healthy diet.
		The ancient satisfaction of breaking bread with a friend is denied us; we must either bring our own bread (a concoction of potato flour, amaranth, and spelt that only an orthorexic could love) or eat alone.
	gathman.org /reviews/orthorexia.html (579 words)

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