Today in Disorders We'll Never Suffer From: Orthorexia

re: Today in Disorders We'll Never Suffer From: Orthorexia

carnivore — Tue, 06 May 2008 10:10:01 GMT

Unfortunately my brother suffers from this. And what's even more unfortunate, whenever my family and I go up to Berkeley to visit his crazy hippie ass, he makes us go out to dinner. Not just any dinner at any restaurant with a wide variety of food to please everyone. No, he takes his carnivore dad and sister to a RAW VEGAN restaurant. The cheese is made from pureed nuts.

He describes Big Mac's as poison and swears that I'll be a better person if I change my diet and take Yoga.

Someone drank the kool-aid. I don't know if it's orthoexria, or just being a crazy hippie. Is there a difference?

re: Today in Disorders We'll Never Suffer From: Orthorexia

profrobert — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:50:20 GMT

This makes sense. Compare it to, say, obsessive hand-washing by OCD sufferers. No one disputes that regular hand-washing is healthy; it's when it's taken to unhealthy extremes that it becomes a problem.

re: Today in Disorders We'll Never Suffer From: Orthorexia

SkyPork — Mon, 05 May 2008 17:30:16 GMT

Wanting healthy food can be unhealthy? WTF? Did this guy just take a huge wad of cash from a fast food megacorp and make up a disorder from scratch?

I can see how I, myself, might have a borderline obsession with healthy food; I might be the most health-conscious eater I know. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying going out for pizza now and then. I guess I can see that if someone frets for hours on the next day's meals, that could qualify as an unhealthy obsession, but isn't that true about absolutely everything?

Of course, said pizza should have low-fat cheese ... and an organic crust ... and non-irradiated -- oh crap.