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Topic started on 29-6-2010 @ 09:41 AM by ModernAcademia

Choosing healthy foods now called a mental disorder


www.naturalnews.com
This is no joke: If you focus on eating healthy foods, you're "mentally diseased" and probably need some sort of chemical treatment involving powerful psychotropic drugs.

"Fixation with healthy eating can be sign of serious psychological disorder" and goes on to claim this "disease" is called orthorexia nervosa -- which is basically just Latin for "nervous about correct eating."

If you eat processed junk foods laced with synthetic chemicals, that's okay with them. The mental patients are
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reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:04 AM by MKULTRA
In the upcoming DSM V, there is no such eating disorder listed in their eating disorders category:

www.dsm5.org...


Additionally if you do a search for 'orthorexia' you get this:

"No results matching your search were found."

Orthorexia is also not found in the ICD-10.

A review of the literature at pubmed.com yields 17 results for 'orthorexia nervosa' dating back to 2002.

Even if the medical establishment wanted to add this 'new' diagnosis, there would have to be much more literature conducted in peer-reviewed journals. Single case studies and measurement validation attempts from Sweden and Turkey just don't cut it.


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:08 AM by BigDaveJr
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Why is it that unhealthy foods taste so much better than healthy foods? You only live once,so I'll eat My beef,Pork and other unthealthy foods and enjoy Myself.


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:08 AM by Blanca Rose
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I don't know where you live, but one of these stores is a good place to start if you want to change your eating habits. The sticker shock is a little hard to get used to, though!

link

Bon appetite!


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:20 AM by Juggernutty
Originally posted by Blanca Rose
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post by Juggernutty




I don't know where you live, but one of these stores is a good place to start if you want to change your eating habits. The sticker shock is a little hard to get used to, though!

link

Bon appetite!


Do they accept food stamps!?


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:24 AM by Blanca Rose
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To be honest with you, I have no idea if they accept food stamps or things like WIC.

You can find a location for the store closest to you in the link. You probably need to call them and check.

One thing I have noticed though, for myself, is that if I eat more healthy foods, I don't get hungry as often, or have food cravings.

While a store like this might use up money faster, at least you know what your are getting is better for you.


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:25 AM by DeathTribble
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Thanks for the search, MK. I would just add that in the vast number of these types of "disorders", there is a corollary that basically says "to the point that such behaviors impinge on the person's general well-being", ie becomes a compulsion. I have seen people so obsessed w/ what they eat that by limiting it down to 4 "healthy" foods, they actually become unhealthy. Or, a person could spend so much of their time and energy focused on the need to eat certain foods and thus experience serious anxiety about it that it threatens their well-being.

That said, the DSM is really mostly useful as a billing code bible, the complexity of the human mind is such that rarely does anyone have a textbook case of anything. It can be a useful guide but not much else. Esp. in mental health, choosing the therapist that really "gets you" and wants to aid you in going where you want to go is the key. What diagnosis you get is really secondary in most cases.


reply posted on 29-6-2010 @ 10:27 AM by Juggernutty
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So besides the place you get your food from, are there certain types of foods that are suposed to be better? like only fruits and veggies? or is meat ok? cuz i love me a steak
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