In a March 11 post on the blog jezebel.com, Dr. Steven Bratman spoke about topics including the relationship between highly regulated eating patterns and obsessive-compulsive disorder:
Now that his term has taken on a life of its own, he's a bit skeptical. He says that while many people are probably "overly-obsessed with diet" and "should lighten up a little," those who truly endanger their health in a quest for dietary purity are probably rare.
He speculates that orthorexia could be a variant of obsessive-compulsive disorder rather than anorexia, and adds that the disorder has "a religious quality to it." He points to extreme raw-foodism, some of whose adherents teach "that the great enemy of man is the cooking stove," as an example of such religiosity.
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