Orthorexia Nervosa: When 'Healthy' Food Becomes Harmful
The Food Chain
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Orthorexia
Eating disorders are about control. In orthorexia you can say that people are afraid of death and their attempt to control their fear of mortality they do by transferring it on to food. Is this a problem we see mainly in the developing world? There's no way to know without doing research but I will say that I do hear about this from a lot of countries that one wouldn't automatically connect it to. Brazil, Poland, Portugal, Turkey our countries have a lot of discussion of orthorexia which aren't obviously world's wealthiest countries. It is also very big in Korea and Japan.
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