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'Orthorexia Nervosa: Key Aspects of New Eating Disorder

Orthorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that begins with good intentions. Many associate its roots to clean eating - a healthy eating trend that originally targets reducing or eliminating toxic, unhealthy food items and practices from day to day meals. Clean eating has aided hugely in addresses rising cases of such health problems as obesity, heart diseases and diabetes. Celebrity chef Nigella Lawson, health blogger Jordan Younger and The Huffington Post's Besma Whayeb weigh in on this eating disorder that Dr. Steven Bratman called Orthorexia,
By A. M.

  • 'Uber-hosted Project HEAL Raise Over $500,000: Arianna Huffington and Uber's Travis Kalanick Personal Cause Against Eating Disorders

    Of the 30 million Americans estimated to suffer from eating disorders, only around 10 percent are able to receive treatment. Anorexia nervosa, and eating disorders similar to it, is an expensive mental illness that requires steep payment.

  • 'Older Women: The Modern Image of Eating Disorders

    A study released in the International Journal of Eating Disorders found that 13% of women age 50 and older revealed that they are experiencing signs of eating problems such as bingeing, purging, diet pills consumption or doing extreme exercises to drop pounds.

  • 'What Drives Anorexia, Key Aspect Unlocked by Research

    A group of researchers based in New York may have found a significant link between the activities of two regions in the human brain that play an important role in the decision-making process among individuals who have anorexia nervosa. Individuals with this psychological illness suffer from extreme fear of weight gain. Scientists are familiar with the habits that characterise this disorder but, until recently, know very little about the how and why of an anorexic person's food choices.
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