Orthorexia?????
“A national (U.S.) TV network news program is conducting background research for a possible story on “orthorexia.” Orthorexia is the colloquial term for an obsession with eating only healthy foods. It is motivated by a desire to feel healthy, natural, and “pure” — as opposed to anorexia, which is motivated by a desire to lose weight. They are looking for individuals who who think their health-conscious behavior has taken over their lives (for better or for worse) and who would be willing to talk a little about their experiences……Read article here.
Have any of y’all heard of this before?
“Kate tells of a time when doctors diagnosed her with anorexia. She resisted the diagnosis and their recommended treatment. It just didn’t seem to fit. She wasn’t afraid of being fat. She didn’t want to be thin. She just wanted to eat healthy food.
Nonetheless, she brought her weight down so low she ultimately died from it.
Most often, orthorexia is merely a source of psychological distress, not a physical danger. However, emaciation is common among followers of certain health food diets, such raw foodism, and this can at times reach the extremes seen in anorexia nervosa…..Kate’s Story
I’m just wondering……are there any people that don’t have some type of eating disorder left?
I have heard of this before and well, it perplexes me – makes me wonder how much of this is actually an eating disorder vs OCD about healthy food consumption.
They need to call people who don’t think about food all the time something. Make us all disordered so we cancel each other out and we just learn to accept that there is no such thing as NORMAL eating anymore – we are all a degree of different.
straight …..”appetite” not “eating”
If he’s gonna steal a term & try to invent a new disease to write a paper at least steal it correctly.
Even when I became aware that my scrabbling in the dirt after raw vegetables and wild plants had become an obsession, I found it terribly difficult to free myself. I had been seduced by righteous eating.
It’s freaking Hippie OCD. The above example used the word “righteous”…what further proof do ya need?
Free range veggies and grains…far fuckin out man.
*insert crackin’ up tree hugger here* (scowl)
:cryin:
I knew you’d do just that.
*still laughin*
(((((VW drivin hippie)))))
You KNOW I’m just messin’ with ya
What next?
Are people who crap everyday going to be labeled “craporexics”?
Why aren’t vegetarians called “vegorexics”?
Total bullshit. Every damn thing DOES NOT need a label especially when it takes away from the seriousness of eating disorder labels.
Pure bullshit! She’s a righteousrexic! LOL
i read an article in teen vouge that took this term totally out of context… and made it sound like you have a disease for caring if your foods are organic or full of corn syrup and chemicals? dont we have the right to eat natural foods without being labled as hippie freaks? jewish and hindus even seven day adventist have strict dietary rules..are they ortorexic? besides… the doctor who created the term is an x- organic farmer and naturapath…whos delt with decades of excentric food nazis at this retreat place where he worked as a cook..(.ie raw foodist, macrobiotics,vegans, etc.) dont get me wrong, i too know people can obsess about natural foods. but as a general rule…there is nothing wrong with caring if the food you eat is actually food. shame on the grocery stores, and corporate crap that pass off toxic, unreagulated biproducts (ie: rapeseed and cottenseed oils) in our everyday foods. isnt it their fault for poisoning our foods in the fist place and causing said parinoia…