The first book to identify the eating disorder orthorexia nervosa an obsession with eating healthfully and offer expert advice on how to treat it.
As Americans become better informed about health, more and more people have turned to diet as a way to lose weight and keep themselves in peak condition. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa disorders in which the sufferer focuses on the quantity of food eaten have been highly documented over the past decade. But as Dr. Steven Bratman asserts in this breakthrough book, for many people, eating correctly has become an equally harmful obsession,...