Obsessed with Health : Orthorexics Take Healthy Eating to the Extreme (By Erika Alexia Tsoukanelis)

In a country where 34% of the population is obese, where 2,500 people die every day of heart disease and more than half a million perish of cancer each year, cultivating an unhealthy focus on healthy eating seems impossible. Yet some are so fixated on purifying their bodies that they make themselves sick in the process. It’s a condition known as orthorexia nervosa.