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- noun Plural form of
orthorexic .
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Examples
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Some eating disorder experts said that parents are so worried about their kids eating only the "right" food they're turning the moppets into "orthorexics" -- people afraid of eating the wrong thing, ever.
Lenore Skenazy: Let's Not Worry So Much About What Our Kids Eat 2009
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The Guardian goes on to say that "orthorexics" (official name for those of us afflicted with the idea that we would like to choose healthy foods so we can avoid illness) have rigid guidelines around eating.
Christina Pirello: Stigmatizing Health: The War Against 'Health Nuts' 2010
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One of the main challenges with treating orthorexia is that many orthorexics don't think they need any help.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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One of the main challenges with treating orthorexia is that many orthorexics don't think they need any help.
Randall Amster: "I Want to Be a Farmer": Food Justice, Out of the Mouths of Babes Randall Amster 2011
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The obsession about which foods are 'good' and which are 'bad' means orthorexics can end up malnourished.
Orthorexia The Nag 2009
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According to The Guardian, mental health experts have even gone to the extremes of saying that the obsession about which foods are "good" and "bad" means that orthorexics can end up being malnourished.
Christina Pirello: Stigmatizing Health: The War Against 'Health Nuts' 2010
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Paradoxically, orthorexics obsessed with health are not healthy and often shun food to the point of emaciation and starvation.
Darya Pino: Orthorexia, Bacon Worship And The Power Of Food Culture 2009
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But unlike patients with anorexia nervosa, the goal of orthorexics is not to be thin but to be "pure, healthy and natural," according to Dr. Steven Bratman who first described the disorder in 1997.
Darya Pino: Orthorexia, Bacon Worship And The Power Of Food Culture 2009
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"I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago," said Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association's mental health group.
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Ms Philpot, a senior associate lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, told the Observer that while other eating disorders focussed on quantity of food, orthorexics can be overweight or look normal.
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People with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
People afraid of eating the wrong thing, ever.
Unlike patients with anorexia nervosa, the goal of orthorexics is not to be thin but to be "pure, healthy and natural".
Mental health experts say that the obsession about which foods are "good" and "bad" means that orthorexics can end up being malnourished and often shun food to the point of emaciation and starvation.
June 15, 2016