Product Description
The first book to identify the eating disorder orthorexia nervosaan obsession with eating healthfullyand 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 nervosadisorders in which the sufferer focuses on the quantity of food eatenhave been highly documented over the past decade. But as Dr… More >>
Health Food Junkies: Orthorexia Nervosa: Overcoming the Obsession with Healthful Eating
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Dr. Bratman assumes that because he had some sort of eating problem, everyone else who eats in a healthy manner does as well. Quite simply, he has no evidence to back up his false claims. His book largely contains anecdotes, with no studies to prove his theories.
This is not a good book. Thumbsdown
Rating: 1 / 5
The author portrays some unconventional diets in terms which can only lead one to believe result from very cursory readings and no independent corroboration. But than again, the process of new information developing is always characterized by two steps foward and one step back.
This book is the one step back.
If you feel that nutrition has no role in health or disease prevention, then this book is for you. But then again, why would you want to read it? If you enjoy finding out about the widening role food plays in regard to our emotions, health and vitality, you can forget about getting anything out of this book.
Rating: 1 / 5
Do people have “orthorexia” or is it just that 99% of north american food supply is tainted? You can hardly enter a supermarket these days without taking home pesticides, hormone laced meats, farmed fish, foods that have enough additives to keep a drug addict happy…. “Natural food” is becoming a retronym. A thing of the past. Garbage food has become so prevalent in our society that to reject such food now constitutes a “disorder”.
We have become one of the most unhealthy continents on the planet. People don’t care about what they eat, as long as it’s affordable and tastes good.
All that said. I *can* see how seeking ONLY pure food (especially given the vast rarity of it) can become an unhealthy obsession. Needle in a haystack anyone?
Rating: 1 / 5
This is just a silly attempt to enforce a false food standard onto a segment of society seeking to liberate itself from the curent dietary disaster we are in the midst of. There are 4,000 heart attacks a day in the US and overweight men who eat high fat diets are the majority.
I have been on a raw vegan diet for six months and feel great have lost 37 pounds. Just this aftenoon I met with a friend who is about 35 pounds overweight. He knows I am on this diet and am far healthier now yet he offered to buy me chocolate cake and then went and got himself two sugary sports drinks and chocolate donuts whcih he proceeded to down thrusting the sugary donut in my face several times to get me to take it.
Who is the nut here? I then proceeded to beat him in arm wrestling despite the fact he is my size and 17 yrs younger.
This doctor is the worst kind of “expert” there is!
He reminds me of the doctors who used to be in magazine adds saying smoking was good for you – yeah right!
Rating: 1 / 5
I wish the authors would have concluded by saying that there are many different kinds of people who need many different kinds of diets, however, the authors don’t do this. The author’s suggestion that eating a toxic food like pizza, and sharing it with others, is better than eating healthy food by yourself is simply bad advice and contributed to our mass health problems in the U.S.Waking up the next morning after eating poor quality food, irritable and angry is not the answer. We need books which give people the courage and ability to eat healthily not rationalize eating pizza!
This is what I have come to expect from the majority of medical doctors: eat and drink lousy food and then come in for surgery, chemo, radiation and pharmaceuticals which make us lots of money. The two points the authors make which are valuable is that 1. you can go overboard in any diet you try, but this point is not new. 2. The authors do note the power of food allergy testing which is vastly underutilized
However, I would strongly suggest any book by Gabriel Cousens M.D. especially “Conscious Eating” and “Depression Free for Life, A Physician’s All-Natural, 5-Step Plan” as much better advice getting you toward addressing root causes of health issues.
Rating: 2 / 5