Health Food Junkies: The Rise of Orthorexia Nervosa - The Health Food Eating Disorder
The Rise of Orthorexia Nervosa - The Health Food Eating Disorder
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- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
27 July 2004
Summary
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 asser…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780767905855 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0767905857 |
| Author: | David Knight, Steven Bratman |
| Publisher: | Broadway Books |
| Imprint: | Random House Inc |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 27 July 2004 |
| Weight: | 336g |
| Dimensions: | 17mm x 133mm x 210mm |
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About The Author
David Knight
Dr. Steven Bratman suffered from orthorexia nervosa himself, and, in the process of overcoming it, became the first physician to diagnose the problem. He is currently the medical director for Prima Health, a book publisher, and is the author of The Alternative Medicine Sourcebook. He lives in Colorado.
David Knight is a writer. He lives in Colorado.
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