Food playing a bigger role in health consciousness

As many people move from thinking of health from the perspective of something going wrong to thinking of it from the perspective of keeping things right, food is becoming more important.

This 16 October 2006 Marketplace radio episode titled "An unhealthy obsession with eating healthy?" shows how some may be taking this desire to eat healthily too far, and according to one doctor, how this condition labeled "Orthorexia" could be an eating disorder.

But, as Kai Ryssdal put it, "here's the thing about orthorexia: Unlike most afflictions, the worse it gets, the better you feel."

You can listen to this Marketplace piece by clicking here.