Can being obsessed with eating healthy be a mental illness? and other top stories.

• Can being obsessed with eating healthy be a mental illness?

  

  The deluge of nutritional and health advice on the internet and in the media could be fuelling a dangerous but as yet unrecognised eating disorder called orthorexia. Orthorexia nervosa, a term coined in 1997 by Dr Steven Bratman, is a fixation with healthy eating, to the point where it becomes a crippling compulsion, described as "a disease disguised as a virtue". It differs from eating disorders like anorexia and bulimia in that the goal is not usually to become thin. In fact, ironical..

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• GPs are sending patients a message on prescriptions — end the Medicare rebate freeze

  

  Dr Daniel Byrne examines patient Lachie Heil at the Chandlers Hill Surgery. There is a growing protest among GP's about the Federal Government freeze on Medicare rebates. Picture: Calum RobertsonADELAIDE GPs are giving a free extra with every prescription — a warning that a Federal Government freeze on Medicare rebates will cost patients money.The GPs are using a small space at the bottom of prescriptions, usually used for notes, to print the political message “You And Your Family’s Health Have ..

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• Health authorities quickly and quietly respond to new legionnaires' disease outbreak in Burwood

  

  Video will begin in 5 seconds. Legionnaires' disease explained Expert in environmental microbiology Dr Harriet Whiley explains the symptoms and causes of legionnaires' disease after an outbreak in Sydney. PT1M54S 620 349 Health authorities are scrambling to contain the most fertile legionella season in recent history after a man died in a fresh outbreak of legionnaires' disease. The death - the second in two months - is associated with an outbreak in Burwood, which has emerged..

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• Brazil's Temer tells Olympic committee Rio will be ready

  

  Temer spoke to IOC president Thomas Bach by telephone and assured him the games will take place as planned, Picciani told reporters after a meeting with Brazil's new president, who replaced suspended President Dilma Rousseff on Thursday. Picciani, a young politician from Rio, said preparations for the global sports event were on schedule and security for the games was guaranteed, playing down differences with the new Defense Minister Raul Jungmann. Jungmann told the Estado de S.Paulo newspaper ..

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