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Additionally, anorexia manifests in equal rates between societies which have almost nothing in common culturally, falsifying the hypothesis that it is caused by
by prvc 7y ago
Additionally, anorexia manifests in equal rates between societies which have almost nothing in common culturally, falsifying the hypothesis that it is caused by cultural factors.
Regarding "orthorexia nervosa", on the other hand, there is a perverse incentive in psychology to define everything under the sun as a disorder. I do not see right off the bat why this should not be thought of as being different from a specific manifestation of OCD.
- KuiN 7y agoOCD is already heavily mis-used. Attaching more meaning to it isn't likely to improve anything.
- watwut 7y agoWhere do you have it from? Anorexia rates change even within the same society. "An analysis of many studies from Europe and North America revealed that rates of anorexia increased sharply until the 1970s, when they stabilized.Rates of bulimia increased during the 1980s and early 1990s, and they have since remained the same or decreased slightly." https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/toolkit/parent-toolkit/statistics https://www.nationaleatingdisorders.org/toolkit/parent-toolk... The same page show differences in anorexia rates between countries too.