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Orthorexia nervosa (also known as orthorexia) (ON) is a proposed eating disorder characterized by an excessive preoccupation with eating healthy food. The term was introduced in 1997 by American physician Steven Bratman, M.D. He suggested that some people's dietary restrictions intended to promote health may paradoxically lead to unhealthy consequences, such as social isolation; anxiety; loss of ability to eat in a natural, intuitive manner; reduced interest in the full range of other healthy human activities; and, in rare cases, severe malnutrition or even death.In 2009, Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association and senior lecturer at Leeds Metropolitan University, described people with orthorexia nervosa as being "solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly 'pure'." This differs from other eating disorders, such as anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa, where those affected focus on the quantity of food eaten.Orthorexia nervosa also differs from anorexia nervosa in that it does not disproportionally affect one gender. Studies have found that orthorexia nervosa is equally found in both men and women with no significant gender differences at all. Furthermore, research has found significant positive correlations between ON and both narcissism and perfectionism, but no significant correlation between ON and self esteem. This shows that high-ON individuals likely take pride over their healthy eating habits over others and that is the driving force behind their orthorexia as opposed to body image like anorexia. Orthorexia nervosa is not recognized as an eating disorder by the American Psychiatric Association, and so is not mentioned as an official diagnosis in the widely used Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM).
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For those who haven't been following, a compilation of one-paragraph summaries of all the Twitter Files threads by every reporter. With links and notes on key revelations
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On the centuries-old history of the demonization of Russia
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"We are seeing a surreptitious clash, a war that no one dares name, between China and the United States for Peru's soul."
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A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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A year ago today (on Dec. 30, 2021) U.S. President Joe Biden, in a telephone conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin, assured him that - Ray McGovern for Antiwar.com Original
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A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard's charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent. By Joe Lauria Special to Consortium News The U.S. relationship with Ukrainian fascists began after the Second World War. During the war, units of the
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The very use of the word "Nazi," is quite uncommon for most westerners. It's quite offensive, so we tend to air-brush it from our vocabularies. But the word is increasingly becoming more prevalent as we are confronted by the US/NATO/EU-backed proxy war against Russia which is currently raging in Ukraine, claiming the lives of tens of thousands of Ukrainian and Russian Servicemen, and causing the displacement of millions of Ukrainian citizens as they are forced to flee from their homes.