Orthorexia: When healthy eating becomes unhealthy


When ‘pure’ eating goes too far, victims’ health suffers.

During a recent trip to the Half Moon Bay, California, farmers market, Johnny Righini didn’t suffer a panic attack or chastise his mother when she bought non-organic produce. For Righini, this moment of self-restraint marks another small victory in his struggle to overcome a pathological obsession with eating “pure” foods.

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