Ashkenazi hates healthy eating - it's dangerous

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Healthy food obsession sparks rise in new eating disorder

The Guardian | August 16, 2009

Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder.

Eating disorder charities are reporting a rise in the number of people suffering from a serious psychological condition characterised by an obsession with healthy eating. The condition, orthorexia nervosa, affects equal numbers of men and women, but sufferers tend to be aged over 30, middle-class and well-educated.

The condition was named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, and is described as a "fixation on righteous eating". Until a few years ago, there were so few sufferers that doctors usually included them under the catch-all label of "Ednos" – eating disorders not otherwise recognised. Now, experts say, orthorexics take up such a significant proportion of the Ednos group that they should be treated separately.

"I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago," said Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association's mental health group. "Other eating disorders focus on quantity of food but orthorexics can be overweight or look normal. They are solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly 'pure'."

Orthorexics commonly have rigid rules around eating. Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

The obsession about which foods are "good" and which are "bad" means orthorexics can end up malnourished. Their dietary restrictions commonly cause sufferers to feel proud of their "virtuous" behaviour even if it means that eating becomes so stressful their personal relationships can come under pressure and they become socially isolated.

"The issues underlying orthorexia are often the same as anorexia and the two conditions can overlap but orthorexia is very definitely a distinct disorder," said Philpot. "Those most susceptible are middle-class, well-educated people who read about food scares in the papers, research them on the internet, and have the time and money to source what they believe to be purer alternatives."

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, said: "There is a fine line between people who think they are taking care of themselves by manipulating their diet and those who have orthorexia. I see people around me who have no idea they have this disorder. I see it in my practice and I see it among my friends and colleagues."

Jade believes the condition is on the increase because "modern society has lost its way with food". She said: "It's everywhere, from the people who think it's normal if their friends stop eating entire food groups, to the trainers in the gym who [promote] certain foods to enhance performance, to the proliferation of nutritionists, dieticians and naturopaths [who believe in curing problems through entirely natural methods such as sunlight and massage].

"And just look in the bookshops – all the diets that advise eating according to your blood type or metabolic rate. This is all grist for the mill to those looking for proof to confirm or encourage their anxieties around food."

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Refusing to touch sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods is just the start of their diet restrictions. Any foods that have come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also out.

Let's see, refined white sugar is a drain on your immune system, refined white salt the same, since when were caffeine and alcohol good for you, many people are sensitive to gluten to some extent, refined commercial yeast can cause systemic yeast overgrowth, over 2/3 of U. S. corn and soy is now GMO, with probably significant broad-spectrum health risks and pasteurized dairy can contribute to conditions of mucus in the body; also many adults are lactose-intolerant to some degree and the non-organic/small farm milk usually contains antibiotics and growth hormones.

So, they are telling us: HEY YOU, STOP EDUCATING YOURSELF ABOUT THE POTENTIAL DANGERS OF EATING INDUSTRIAL FOOD!  YOU ARE MENTALLY ILL!

Well, I'd like to take this opportunity to recommend a film by the guy who wrote Fast Food Nation called "Food, Inc.", which is primarily about issues surrounding factory farm meat and GMO crops.  Reminded me of plank nine of the Communist Manifesto, combining agriculture with manufacturing industries.

http://www.foodincmovie.com/

There's another good one available called "The Future of Food" (primarily about GMO's).

http://futureoffood.com/

Changing one's diet to more wholesome foods can take some readjusting, and be initially overwhelming when one realizes just how much junk is in cheap food and overprocessed food, especially in the U. S.  But it's not a mental illness to want to chuck this stuff overboard.  They know we are onto them and so they are calling us "obsessive".

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Hey - Get with the program. Get a fkn Big Mac and STFU!
More dirty lies from stinkin' liars.

Food that you grow yourself tastes so much better than food from the store.
Cheaper too...  :mrgreen: :mrgreen:  :mrgreen:

Finding creative and inventive ways out of the ziosystem is the future IMHO