Orthorexia nervosa, from the Greek orthos (straight, proper) and
orexia (appetite), is a disorder in which a person demonstrates a pathological obsession not with weight loss but with a "pure" or healthy diet, which can contribute to significant dietary restriction and food-related obsessions.
Galeno en 155 describio un cuadro de adelgazamiento morboso y la kynos
orexia o hambre canina como sinonimo de la bulimia.
Habit learning and an
orexia nervosa: a cognitive neuroscience hypothesis.
"The an
orexia was making my bones brittle from lack of nutrition and I developed osteoporosis which I still have in my spine.
The same verb produced the noun
orexia longing desire and the addition of the negative prefix an-gave the noun anorexia and changed the meaning to ``absence of longing'' and,more specifically,``loss of appetite''.So if we describe someone as being anorexic what we are really saying is that he or she just can't be bothered to reach out and pick up something to eat.