Margaret McCartney: Clean eating and the cult of healthism.

Orthorexia nervosa: An integrative literature review of a lifestyle syndrome

Bratman first proposed orthorexia nervosa in the late 1990s, defining it an obsession with eating healthy food to achieve, for instance, improved health. Today, in the Swedish media, excessive exercising plays a central role in relation to orthorexia. A few review articles on orthorexia have been conducted; however, these have not focused on aspects of food and eating, sport, exercise, or a soc...

Margaret McCartney: Nurses must be allowed to exercise professional judgment.

It has come to our attention that this Views and Reviews paper (BMJ 2017;356:j1548, doi:10.1136/bmj.j1548) contains an error. The article refers to "guidance written by the BMA, the Resuscitation Council, and the Royal College of Midwives." The guidance referred to is a joint publication from the BMA, the Resuscitation Council, and the Royal College of Nursing, not the Royal College of Midwives...

The press release, relative risks, and the polypill.

Margaret McCartney: Why GPs are stressed.

7. Your patients have an average of three issues to discuss, and you’re keen to talk about the ongoing need for drugs, aims of care, and informed choices. You also have—in 10 minutes or so—to consider targets for smoking cessation, advance care planning, flu vaccinations, and polypharmacy reviews. You’re meant to discuss bowel screening, give opportunistic advice on exercise, and raise the prob...

Disordered eating and choice in postfeminist spaces

This paper explores the rise of disordered eating in a postfeminist world. Based on findings from an Australian Research Council grant that investigated why women with disordered eating were reluctant to engage with treatment services, we demonstrate how women embody postfeminist positions of choice and responsibility in their eating and body practices. Through applying Rosalind Gill’s (2007) c...