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Saw this on the front page:
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I have to say that the thing that got me was muscle dysmoprhia is called bigorexia - one would think they could come up with something fancier but they aren't pulling our (muscular) leg:
http://menshealth.about.com/cs/menonly/a/bigorexia.htm
www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Eating ... orexia.asp
www.pale-reflections.com/ednos.asp?page=bigorexia
That last link also has one for orthorexia:
pale-reflections.com/ednos.asp?page=orthorexia
Both the link and the website are dead. See later post for the MIA webpage's content.
Certainly a disorder for our modern times
Actas Esp Psiquiatr. 2005 Jan-Feb;33(1):66-8.
Orthorexia nervosa. A new eating behavior disorder?
[Article in Spanish]
Catalina Zamora ML, Bote Bonaechea B, Garcia Sanchez F, Rios Rial B.
Servicio de Psiquiatria, Hospital de Mostoles, Mostoles, Madrid. [email protected]
New eating behavior disorders such as bigorexia (muscle dysmorphia) and orthorexia are appearing in developed countries. These disorders have not been officially recognized so that they are not classified as independent entities. The term orthorexia comes from the Greek word orthos (straight, proper) and orexia (appetite). It is characterized by the pathological obsession for biologically pure food, which leads to important dietary restrictions. Orthorexic patients exclude foods from their diets that they consider to be impure because they have herbicides, pesticides or artificial substances and they worry in excess about the techniques and materials used in the food elaboration. This obsession leads to loss of social relationships and affective dissatisfactions which, in turn, favors obsessive concern about food. In orthorexia, that patient initially wants to improve his/her health, treat a disease or lose weight. Finally, the diet becomes the most important part of their lives. We present a clinical case that responds to the characteristics of orthorexia. The differential diagnosis with chronic delusional disorder, anorexia nervosa and obsessive-compulsive disorder is carried out.
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I have to say that the thing that got me was muscle dysmoprhia is called bigorexia - one would think they could come up with something fancier but they aren't pulling our (muscular) leg:
http://menshealth.about.com/cs/menonly/a/bigorexia.htm
www.healthyplace.com/Communities/Eating ... orexia.asp
www.pale-reflections.com/ednos.asp?page=bigorexia
That last link also has one for orthorexia:
Both the link and the website are dead. See later post for the MIA webpage's content.
Certainly a disorder for our modern times
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