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Doctor defines obsession with healthy foods, calls
it 'orthorexia nervosa'
Dr. Steven Bratman has seen the quest for healthy eating
take a sour turn from dietary vigilance to dangerous obsession.
Bratman's own extremes in dietary purity peaked in the 1970s when
he was living on an organic farm in New York. He disdained to
eat any vegetable that had been plucked from the ground more than
15 minutes earlier, and chewed each mouthful at least 50 times.
He lectured friends on the evils of processed food and once feared
a piece of pasteurized cheese would give him pneumonia.
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