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Orthorexia Nervosa: New Eating Disorder Hitting the Rich, Educated Middle-Class

by Tanya on  August 20, 2009 at 8:32 AM Lifestyle News
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Orthorexia Nervosa: New Eating Disorder Hitting the Rich, Educated Middle-Class
Had your fill of news spewing information on eating disorders? Well, you haven't heard the last of it then! Here's a new one coming your way - orthorexia nervosa. Surprisingly, though researchers report a 'significant' rise in this disorder, which can get as deadly as its predecessors.


"Orthorexia nervosa", in simpler terms, is the Brits' new-found obsession for healthy food.

According to the experts, sufferers with the obsession for healthy eating tend to be aged over 30, and are middle-class and well-educated.

The condition, which affects equal numbers of men and women, is described as a "fixation on righteous eating".

"I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago," the Telegraph quoted Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association's mental health group, as saying.

"There is a fine line between people who think they are taking care of themselves by manipulating their diet and those who have orthorexia," said Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders.

"I see people around me who have no idea they have this disorder. I see it in my practice and I see it among my friends and colleagues," she added.

The condition, named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, involves rigid eating that includes not touching sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn, and dairy foods.

It can leave some sufferers malnourished, lead to pressures in their personal relationships, and make them become socially isolated.

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Tanya_D(Guest)

08/21/2009

I visited a clinic in Winchester that works with people with eatnig disorders. I am an orthorexic myself and family and friends wanted me to change the way i did things, however i didn't want to despite being malnourished. I eventually was persuaded to visit the Clinic in Winchester for Hypnotherapy and I overcome this need to be super healthy, it was a cover up for other unhappy times in my life. I can highly recommend them and now eat a balanced diet and seek the foods my body naturally needs.
It is a serious problem that isnt taken seriously enough or known well enough. These therapists were fantastic and I would advise anyone with Orthorexia to visit them or seek some help.
Tania D

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