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Orthorexia
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Orthorexia
Obsessiveness about the quality of the food being ingested, ensuring that it is the most healthy, the most organic, etc.
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Orthorexics are obsessed with eating "perfectly," even when their idea of perfect eating isn't nutritionally sound--and it's becoming more prevalent.
Food obsessed? The dangerous line between order and disorder by McGuire, Kathleen / Dance Magazine
Mostly orthorexics spend more than half of their leisure time in obsessing about food.
Orthorexia Nervosa and the Dangers of Food Obsession by Tauqeer Ul Hassan / Health, general community
Orthorexics usually rule out sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods, as well as those in contact with pesticides, herbicides or artificial additives.
Healthy eating junkies by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
 
 
 
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