Tag Archive for: food obsession

Do You Have Orthorexia Nervosa?

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Based on the prior memos, the question has to be: Is obsession with healthy foods really such a bad thing, worthy of an actual medical term? After all, it’s really healthy eating, isn’t it?

I can’t argue with that. However, any time people transition from freedom of choice to being compelled to do something that seems beyond their control, that’s a problem. Maybe not the worst problem, but a problem nevertheless.

I’ve observed first-hand anorexia nervosa when I was a college professor; college students seem to be prone to it, especially the female students . . .

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Extreme Food Choices

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People have always fixated on the perfect diet. From the food combiners of the early 20th Century to the current focus on the Paleolithic diet, there’s always someone touting the best and healthiest way to eat. A lecturer from Australia, Rebecca Charlotte Reynolds, recently wrote an article on food fixations and raised the question of whether the food obsessions might fall into the category of psychological disorders such as anorexia nervosa (1).

She cites three current ways of eating that can take over someone’s life in an unhealthy way: raw foods, clean foods, and the Paleolithic diet. I . . .

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Disordered Eating?

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You may have noticed that when it comes to weight loss, I’ve expanded my recommendations. It used to be eat less and move more; I’ve now added “eat better” between those two recommendations. That can mean a lot of things, but the simplest explanation is to eat more vegetables and fewer refined carbohydrates. But eating better can mean a whole lot more: grass-fed beef, free-range chickens, organic foods, and non-GMO foods.

Grocery stores are being developed to cater to this market. Whole Foods Market has decided to introduce a smaller scale store that offers organic . . .

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