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For many, January is the season for New Year’s resolutions and diet culture talk typically makes an appearance.
What starts off as a well-intentioned endeavor to eat healthier can turn into an obsessive fixation on only eating the healthiest foods, leading to restrictive eating patterns. The Renfrew Center of Charlotte’s Ashley Moser, LMFT, shares signs of this unhealthy obsession with healthy eating, called orthorexia.
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