DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

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An unhealthy obsession with healthful eating?

15th May 2008

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Although an obsession with healthy eating is not officially in the DSM-IV, the diagnostic manual for psychiatrists, at least one doctor has given it a name: orthorexia. Colorado alternative physician Steven Bratman coined the phrase in his 2001 book, “Health Food Junkies,” saying it is a disease disguised as a virtue.

Probably.

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