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JoAnn Betten posted:
>a book Eating for Perfection (working title), by David
>Michael Knight CHT and Steven Bratman MD. In this book David and Steven will
>illustrate Orthorexia Nervosa, an eating disorder which until now has
>not been described. Many of the most unbalanced people I have ever met
This was also posted in the newsgroups. Here's one person's response:
Newsgroup: alt.support.food-allergies
Subject: Re: Orthorexia-The health food eating disorder
From: [log in to unmask] (Jack Campin)
Date: 30 Jul 1998 14:22:31 GMT
Presumably this book represents an attempt by transnational
agribusiness to label any consumer resistance to their marketing
strategies as a mental illness.
There are, and always have been, a few people with weird fixed ideas
about what they ought to eat. But the only reason an obsession with
health foods should be singled out as a disease, but not an obsession
with getting a pint of cow gland exudate down your throat every day,
is political.
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