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Originally Posted by graciegirl
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I just re read your above post as I honestly know people who fit this profile, Gracie. This was a good find on your part. We knew a brilliant young woman who attended an engineering university but who though stick thin would ask the waitress for just a "cup of hot water" when we'd take her out for dinner.......the waitress would ask, "You want a teabag with that hot water, right?" and she would respond, "No, too many calories". "Just hot water will be fine". She ate very little but when she did it was raw whole vegetables for the most part. No meat, no dairy.
She was skeletal. Her older sister only ate "rice cakes"...which are dry.
See below for more.......
Orthorexia ? A Little Known Eating Disorder - Facts on Eating-disorder.com
Weighing The Facts: Orthorexia: Fixation On Righteous Eating
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
http://www.orthorexia.info/index.html