asecin
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yeh for all those raw food junkies, check this
Nothing's wrong with eating healthy, right? Well, there are limits to everything. In recent years doctors have identified an eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa, referring to the compulsive nature of some health food junkies on a quest to improve their health or cure themselves of some perceived disease.
Some subscribe to extreme diets, such as the raw food diet, and end up with vitamin deficiencies. Others spend exorbitant prices for exotic or organic foods. A sign of an eating disorder is when one develops a maniacal obsession for healthy food to a point at which eating behavior dominates one's life and falling off the diet results in guilt and depression.
Not all doctors are convinced that orthorexia nervosa constitutes a true eating disorder along the lines of anorexia and bulimia. But the rate does appear to be on the rise in this age of heightened awareness of nutrition.
Nothing's wrong with eating healthy, right? Well, there are limits to everything. In recent years doctors have identified an eating disorder called orthorexia nervosa, referring to the compulsive nature of some health food junkies on a quest to improve their health or cure themselves of some perceived disease.
Some subscribe to extreme diets, such as the raw food diet, and end up with vitamin deficiencies. Others spend exorbitant prices for exotic or organic foods. A sign of an eating disorder is when one develops a maniacal obsession for healthy food to a point at which eating behavior dominates one's life and falling off the diet results in guilt and depression.
Not all doctors are convinced that orthorexia nervosa constitutes a true eating disorder along the lines of anorexia and bulimia. But the rate does appear to be on the rise in this age of heightened awareness of nutrition.
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