The first book to identify the eating disorder orthorexia
nervosa-an obsession with eating healthfully-and offer expert
advice on how to treat it.
As Americans become better informed about health, more and more
people have turned to diet as a way to lose weight and keep
themselves in peak condition. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia
nervosa-disorders in which the sufferer focuses on the quantity of
food eaten-have been highly documented over the past decade. But as
Dr. Steven Bratman asserts in this breakthrough book, for many
people, eating "correctly" has become an equally harmful obsession,
one that causes them to adopt progressively more rigid diets that
not only eliminate crucial nutrients and food groups, but
ultimately cost them their overall health, personal relationships,
and emotional well-being.
Health Food Junkies is the first book to identify this new eating
disorder, orthorexia nervosa, and to offer detailed, practical
advice on how to cope with and overcome it. Orthorexia nervosa
occurs when the victim becomes obsessed, not with the "quantity" of
food eaten, but the "quality" of the food. What starts as a
devotion to healthy eating can evolve into a pattern of incredibly
strict diets; victims become so focused on eating a "pure" diet
(usually raw vegetables and grains) that the planning and
preparation of food come to play the dominant role in their lives.
Health Food Junkies provides an expert analysis of some of today's
most popular diets-from The Zone to macrobiotics, raw-foodism to
food allergy elimination-and shows not only how they can lead to
orthorexia, but how they are often built on faulty logic rather
than sound medical advice. Offering expert insight gleaned from his
work with orthorexia patients, Dr. Bratman outlines the symptoms of
orthorexia, describes its progression, and shows readers how to
diagnose the condition. Finally, Dr. Bratman offers practical
suggestions for intervention and treatment, giving readers the
tools they need to conquer this painful disorder, rediscover the
joys of eating, and reclaim their lives.
"From the Hardcover edition."
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