Friday, December 17, 2004

Another pathology of self management?

Ode reports:
'Obsession about being healthy can make you sick. This condition even has a name: orthorexia, a term introduced in 1997 by American specialist in alternative health physician Steven Bratman. Orthorexia sufferers spend an unreasonable amount of time each day worrying about what they should and shouldn’t eat. As Bratman notes in Psychology Today (September/October 2004): “If your focus on healthy eating is interfering with your happiness and social life, you might have a problem.” Other specialists claim there is little difference between orthorexia and anorexia. Both conditions involve weight loss and their treatment is nearly the same. Psychology Today is concerned that all the recent coverage of low carb diets and the obesity epidemic will mean a rise in orthorexia.'

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