Though it's not officially recognized as an eating disorder, orthorexia involves the same obsession thinking and behavior patterns as other eating disorders. Orthorexia is an obsession with "healthy or righteous eating" and often involves highly restrictive eating habits in the name of "eating healthy".

"As with anorexia, many people with orthorexia can become pathologically fixated with food, although in this case, it is with eating 'proper food'. The insidious part is that it is all done in the guise of health&As it is with some of the officially recognized eating disorders, this type of approach to nutrition begins to take over, and you find yourself spending inordinate amounts of your mental energy, time and, in many cases, resources to meet the needs and expectations of the approach."

One of the dangers of orthorexia is that a person's diet can become so restricted that, in the name of "being healthy", the restricted diet becomes unhealthy and potentially dangerous. Read more at StateNews.com.

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