10 Common Eating Disorders
Common Eating Disorder #7: Orthorexia
Eating healthy is important for our overall well being. This means making sure that you eat food that has plenty of nutritional value, while also limiting unhealthy foods that promote excessive weight gain and other complications. It is not always necessary to follow a strict diet to be healthy, though, and a reasonable balance will do. For some people, however, it is an obsession.
Orthorexia is an eating disorder that causes people to become obsessed with the nutritional value of their food. It has to be healthy, and it has to be ‘pure’. This can cause them to severely restrict their intake potentially leading to malnutrition and other complications.
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