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Orthorexia Pushes Healthy Eating Concerns to Unhealthy Extremes, Says Caring Online

2012 APR 30 -- Orthorexia, a condition that causes people to become preoccupied with eating an extremely pure and healthy diet, doesn't show up on the "official" list of recognized eating disorders, but some clinicians think that it should, according to the website Caring Online.

Orthorexia, a term coined in 1997 from the Greek for "correct appetite," isn't meant to apply to the millions of people who try their best to eat a balanced diet. Orthorexia describes an all-consuming obsession with supposedly healthy eating that turns out to be not very healthy at all.

Although controlling body weight might not be an orthorexia sufferer's...

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