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Health food junkies overcoming the obession with healthful eating

"Health Food Junkies is the first book to identify the eating disorder orthorexia nervosa -- an obsession with eating healthfully -- and offer expert, compassionate advice on how to break free from the condition. If you sense that your rigorous health food diet may be interfering with daily activiti...

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Main Author: Bratman, Steven
Other Authors: Knight, David
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadway Books, 2000.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Eating disorders > Popular works.
Nutrition > Psychological aspects > Popular works.
Food habits > Psychological aspects > Popular works.
Junk food > Popular works.
Natural foods > Popular works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: SECTION 1
  • UNDERSTANDING ORTHOREXIA
  • 1. What Is Orthorexia? 5
  • 2. A Disease Disguised as a Virtue 18
  • 3. The Dangers of Orthorexia 25
  • 4. Do You Have Orthorexia? 47
  • 5. Hidden Causes of Orthorexia 54
  • SECTION 2
  • THE HEALING DIETS
  • 6. Food Allergies and Imperfection 93
  • 7. Back to Eden with Raw Foods Theory 104
  • 8. Macrobiotics 119
  • 9. The Zone 135
  • 10. Candida and Other Simple Solutions 145
  • 11. Eat Right for Your Type? 152
  • 12. Living on Tablets 155
  • 13. The Beer and Pizza Diet 176
  • 14. How Well Do Extreme Diets Work? 181
  • SECTION 3
  • RECOVERY
  • 15. Steps 203
  • 16. Identifying Hidden Agendas 208
  • 17. Eating Healthy Without Obsession:
  • Finding the Middle Way 217
  • 18. For Friends and Health Care Professionals:
  • When to Intervene 230.

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